lords_sessions: Lords sessions

In hansard: Provides Easy Downloading Capabilities for the UK Parliament API

Description

Returns the session code and other basic details for individual House of Lords sittings. Note that this API does not appear to have been updated with data after 2017-01-31.

Usage

lords_sessions(start_date = "1900-01-01", end_date = Sys.Date(),
  tidy = TRUE, tidy_style = "snake", verbose = TRUE)

hansard_lords_sessions(start_date = "1900-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(), tidy = TRUE, tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

start_date	Only includes sessions starting 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 sessions ending 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.
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.

See Also

lords_attendance_session()

sessions_info()

Examples

## Not run: 

a <- lords_sessions(start_date = "2017-01-01", end_date = "2017-01-31")

## End(Not run)

hansard documentation built on Nov. 13, 2019, 5:06 p.m.