search_committee: Search Committee
In legco: R Bindings for the Hong Kong Legislative Council API

Description Usage Arguments Details Functions Notes

Search committee by full or partial name of committee.

search_committee(search_string, term_id = NULL, exact = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)

legco_search_committee(
  search_string,
  term_id = NULL,
  exact = TRUE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

`search_string`	search string of committee name. Accepts Chinese or English full or partial name. Defaults to `NULL`.
`term_id`	the id of a term, or a vector of ids. If `NULL`, returns results of all terms. Defaults to `NULL`.
`exact`	logical: Whether to look for exact match of the search term. Defaults to `TRUE`.
`verbose`	logical: Whether to display progress messages when fetching data? Defaults to `TRUE`.

This is a complementary function to voting_record().

Complementary Functions:

search_committee: Search LegCo committees
search_member: Search LegCo members
search_voting_record: Search Voting Record in LegCo meetings
search_question: Search full text of question put to the government by LegCo members

The complementary functions work by calling a number of database functions and combining their output, meaning that a function call usually involves multiple API calls. Use with caution to prevent reaching the API’s rate limit too quickly.

legco documentation built on Oct. 16, 2021, 5:09 p.m.