commons_written_questions: House of Commons Written Questions
In hansard: Provides Easy Downloading Capabilities for the UK Parliament API

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

View source: R/commons_written_questions.R

Imports data in a tibble on House of Commons written questions.

commons_written_questions(mp_id = NULL, answering_department = NULL,
  start_date = "1900-01-01", end_date = Sys.Date(),
  extra_args = NULL, tidy = TRUE, tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE)

hansard_commons_written_questions(mp_id = NULL,
  answering_department = NULL, start_date = "1900-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(), extra_args = NULL, tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake", verbose = TRUE)

`mp_id`	Accepts a member ID or a list of member IDs and returns a tibble with all written questions asked by that MP or list of MPs. If `NULL`, mp_id is not included as a query parameter. Defaults to `NULL`.
`answering_department`	Accepts a string with a department name or partial name, or a list of such strings. The query acts as a search, so passing `'health'` will return all questions answered by the Department of Health. If `NULL`, answering_department is not included as a query parameter. Defaults to `NULL`.
`start_date`	Only includes questions tabled on or after this date. Accepts character values in `'YYYY-MM-DD'` format, and objects of class `Date`, `POSIXt`, `POSIXct`, `POSIXlt` or anything else that can be coerced to a date with `as.Date()`. Defaults to `'1900-01-01'`.
`end_date`	Only includes questions tabled on or before this date. Accepts character values in `'YYYY-MM-DD'` format, and objects of class `Date`, `POSIXt`, `POSIXct`, `POSIXlt` or anything else that can be coerced to a date with `as.Date()`. Defaults to the current system date.
`extra_args`	Additional parameters and queries to pass to API. These queries must be strings and start with "&". See the API documentation or the package vignette for more details. Defaults to `NULL`.
`tidy`	Logical parameter. If `TRUE`, fixes the variable names in the tibble to remove special characters and superfluous text, and converts the variable names to a consistent style. Defaults to `TRUE`.
`tidy_style`	The style to convert variable names to, if `tidy = TRUE`. Accepts any style accepted by to_any_case. Defaults to `'snake'`.
`verbose`	If `TRUE`, displayes messages on the console on the progress of the API request. Defaults to `TRUE`.

A tibble with details on written questions in the House of Commons.

## Not run: 
# Returns a tibble with written questions from Jon Trickett,
# answered by the Cabinet Office.
x <- commons_written_questions(
  mp_id = 410,
  answering_department = "cabinet office"
)

# Returns a tibble with written questions from Jon Trickett or Diane Abbott,
# and answered by the Cabinet Office or the Home Office.
x <- commons_written_questions(
  mp_id = c(410, 172),
  answering_department = c("cabinet", "home")
)

## End(Not run)