sen_commissions: Information on commissions in the Federal Senate

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Description

Information on commissions in the Federal Senate.

Usage

sen_commissions(active = c("Yes", "No"), ascii = TRUE)

Arguments

active	character. Options are "Yes" or "No". If "Yes", returns only active commissions, otherwise all commissions.
ascii	logical. If TRUE, certain strings are converted to ascii format.

Details

Returns a data frame with the following variables:

• commission_id: unique code for each commission.

• commission_abbr: Abbreviated name of the commission.

• commission_name: Commission name.

• commission_purpose: Objective of the commission.

• commission_initial_date: Commission starting date.

• commission_public: Whether the commission is public or not.

• commission_house: Legislative house where the commission is based.

• commission_type: Permanent, temporary, or a parliamentary inquiry.

Value

A tibble, of classes tbl_df, tbl and data.frame.

Author(s)

Robert Myles McDonnell, Guilherme Jardim Duarte & Danilo Freire.

Examples

comms <- sen_commissions()

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