Function to retrieve customized U.S. basing data

get_basedata() generates a customized data frame containing data obtained from David Vine's U.S. basing data.

Usage

get_basedata(host = NA, country_count = FALSE, groupvar = NULL)

Arguments

host: The Correlates of War (COW) numeric country code or ISO3C code for the host country or countries in the series
country_count: Logical. Should the function return a country-level count of the total number of bases or the country-site data
groupvar: A character string indicating how country count totals should be generated. Accepted values are 'countryname', 'ccode', or 'iso3c'. Can take on Required when using country_count argument.

Value

get_basedata() returns a data frame containing information on U.S. military bases present within selected host countries. This can be customized to include country-base observations or country-count observations.

Details

Our research team updated these data through 2018.

References

David Vine. 2015. Base Nation. Metropolitan Books. New York, NY.

Author

Michael E. Flynn

Examples


if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
library(tidyverse)
library(troopdata)

example <- get_basedata(host = NA)

head(example)

} # }