R: Function to retrieve customized U.S. troop deployment data

get_troopdata

R Documentation

Function to retrieve customized U.S. troop deployment data

Description

get_troopdata() generates a customized data frame containing country-year observations of U.S. military deployments overseas.

Usage

get_troopdata(host = NA, branch = FALSE, startyear, endyear)

Arguments

`host`	The Correlates of War (COW) numeric country code or ISO3C code for the host country or countries in the series
`branch`	Logical. Should the function return a single vector containing total troop values or multiple vectors containing total values and values for individual branches? Default is FALSE.
`startyear`	The first year for the series
`endyear`	The last year for the series

Value

get_troopdata() returns a data frame containing country-year observations for U.S. troop deployments.

Author(s)

Michael E. Flynn

References

Tim Kane. Global U.S. troop deployment, 1950-2003. Technical Report. Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.

Michael A. Allen, Michael E. Flynn, and Carla Martinez Machain. 2021. "Global U.S. military deployment data: 1950-2020." Working Paper.

Examples


## Not run: 
library(tidyverse)
library(troopdata)

example <- get_troopdata(host = NA, branch = TRUE, startyear = 1980, endyear = 2015)

head(example)


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