Replication Data for: Replication data for: Policy goal communication increases support for ambitious renewable energy policies

Replication code for: Policy goal communication increases support for ambitious renewable energy policies (forthcoming, PLOSClimate) Authors: G. Brückmann and I. Stadelmann-Steffen, University of Bern Contact: G. Brückmann (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5674-2343) Info: We used R v. 4.4.0 (R Core Team 2024) and the following R packages: car v. 3.1.3 (Fox and Weisberg 2019), ggpubr v. 0.6.0 (Kassambara 2023), plyr v. 1.8.9 (Wickham 2011), scales v. 1.4.0 (Wickham, Pedersen, and Seidel 2025), sjlabelled v. 1.2.0 (Lüdecke 2022), summarytools v. 1.0.1 (Comtois 2022), tidyverse v. 2.0.0 (Wickham et al. 2019), tikzDevice v. 0.12.6 (Sharpsteen and Bracken 2023), vtable v. 1.4.8 (Huntington-Klein 2024), running in RStudio v. 2026.1.0.392 (Posit team 2026). Package citations: Comtois, Dominic. 2022. summarytools: Tools to Quickly and Neatly Summarize Data. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=summarytools. Fox, John, and Sanford Weisberg. 2019. An R Companion to Applied Regression. Third. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage. https://www.john-fox.ca/Companion/. Huntington-Klein, Nick. 2024. vtable: Variable Table for Variable Documentation. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=vtable. Kassambara, Alboukadel. 2023. ggpubr: “ggplot2” Based Publication Ready Plots. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ggpubr. Lüdecke, Daniel. 2022. sjlabelled: Labelled Data Utility Functions (Version 1.2.0). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1249215. Posit team. 2026. RStudio: Integrated Development Environment for r. Boston, MA: Posit Software, PBC. http://www.posit.co/. R Core Team. 2024. R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. Vienna, Austria: R Foundation for Statistical Computing. https://www.R-project.org/. Sharpsteen, Charlie, and Cameron Bracken. 2023. tikzDevice: R Graphics Output in LaTeX Format. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=tikzDevice. Wickham, Hadley. 2011. “The Split-Apply-Combine Strategy for Data Analysis.” Journal of Statistical Software 40 (1): 1–29. https://www.jstatsoft.org/v40/i01/. Wickham, Hadley, Mara Averick, Jennifer Bryan, Winston Chang, Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, Romain François, Garrett Grolemund, et al. 2019. “Welcome to the tidyverse.” Journal of Open Source Software 4 (43): 1686. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01686. Wickham, Hadley, Thomas Lin Pedersen, and Dana Seidel. 2025. scales: Scale Functions for Visualization. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=scales.