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Transform ACLED data from wide to long

Source: R/acled_transform_longer.R
acled_transform_longer.Rd

Function to convert your ACLED's API calls (if dyadic) into desired monadic forms.

Usage

acled_transform_longer(data, type = "full_actors")

Arguments

data,

dataframe or tibble containing your dataset.

type,

character string. One of five types: full_actors, main_actors, assoc_actors, source, or all.

  • full_actors: All actor and associated actor columns

  • main_actors: Actor 1 and Actor 2 columns

  • assoc_actors: All associated actor columns

  • source: The source column becomes monadic

Value

A tibble with the data transformed into long form.

See also

Other Data Manipulation: acled_transform_interaction(), acled_transform_wider()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# argen_acled <- acled_api(country = "Argentina",start_date = "2022-01-01",
#                          end_date="2022-02-01", acled_access = T, prompt = F)

# argen_acled_long_actors <- acled_transform_wide_to_long(argen_acled,
#                                            type = "full_actor") # Transforming the data

# nrow(argen_acled_long_actors) # Number of rows in the dataset
# [1] 263 # Long form

# nrow(argen_acled) ) # Number of rows in the dataset
# [1] 145 # Wide form
} # }