1/replication_package/scripts/helper_functions.R

# Define coalesce function for recoding of post-election thermometers.
coalesce <- function (...) {
  Reduce(function(x, y) {
    i <- which(is.na(x))
    x[i] <- y[i]
    x},
    list(...))
}

# Define capwords() function from the toupper() documentation.
capwords <- function(s, strict = FALSE) {
         cap <- function(s) paste(toupper(substring(s, 1, 1)),
                       {s <- substring(s, 2); if(strict) tolower(s) else s},
                                  sep = "", collapse = " " )
         sapply(strsplit(s, split = " "), cap, USE.NAMES = !is.null(names(s)))
     }