sessions_info: Parliamentary Session data

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

Description

Imports data on Parliamentary Sessions. Note that due to the date format used by the API, if days==TRUE and the end_date and start_date parameters are not set to the default values, the function downloads all available data and then subsets the tibble between the two given dates.

Usage

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

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

Arguments

days	If TRUE, returns data for all available days. If FALSE, returns data on each parliamentary session. If TRUE and non-default start_date and/or end_date parameters are requested, the function must retrieve all days and subset based on the values passed to start_date and end_date. Not applicable to lords_sessions. Defaults to FALSE.
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.
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 parliamentary sessions.

Examples

## Not run: 
x <- sessions_info(days = TRUE)

y <- sessions_info(days = FALSE)

## End(Not run)

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