Incidence matrices for the three main political parties for the 2001--05 parliament, along with classification of EDMs into different types have been made into datasets within the R package EDMtype.
EDMtype for Linux
EDMtype for Windows
Save the above files and then install the package in the normal way. Once you have loaded the package into R, the data is acquired using the command data(EDMtype??) where ?? is to be replaced with the year (ie 01 for the 2001/02 session). Incidence matrices are stored as the object "mp??" whereas vectors of types and party affiliation are stored as vectors types?? and pty?? respectively. A list of possible EDM types are stored in the data vector "issuetypes" (loaded using the command data(issuetypes)).
Incidence matrices for each session from 1992 to 2005, for all MPs have been made into an package called "EDM".
EDM for Linux
EDM for Windows
This data currently shows the signing of all those MPs over the given session who signed at least one EDM. Obtain each sessions data by using the command data(EDM??). Incidence matrices are saved as objects named mpinc?? whereas party affiliation are the vectors party??