papers_laid: Papers laid

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

Description

Imports data on papers laid before the House.

Usage

papers_laid(withdrawn = FALSE, house = NULL,
  start_date = "1900-01-01", end_date = Sys.Date(),
  extra_args = NULL, tidy = TRUE, tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE)

hansard_papers_laid(withdrawn = FALSE, house = NULL,
  start_date = "1900-01-01", end_date = Sys.Date(),
  extra_args = NULL, tidy = TRUE, tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

withdrawn	If TRUE, only returns withdrawn papers. Defaults to FALSE.
house	The house the paper was laid in. Accepts 'commons' and 'lords'. If NULL, returns both House of Commons and House of Lords. This parameter is case-insensitive. Defaults to NULL.
start_date	Only includes papers laid before the House 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 papers laid before the House 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.

Value

A tibble with details on papers laid before the given House.

Examples

## Not run: 
x <- papers_laid(withdrawn = FALSE, house = "commons")

x <- papers_laid(withdrawn = TRUE, house = NULL)

## End(Not run)

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