mnis_joined_between: Members who joined between two dates.

In mnis: Easy Downloading Capabilities for the Members' Name Information Service

Description

Function returns all members who took their seats in the house between two given dates.

Usage

mnis_joined_between(
  start_date = "1900-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(),
  house = "all",
  party = NULL,
  eligible = "all",
  tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake_case"
)

Arguments

start_date	The start date of the search, Accepts character values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format, and objects of class Date, POSIXt, POSIXct, POSIXlt or anything else than can be coerced to a date with as.Date(). Defaults to '1900-01-01'.
end_date	The end date of the search. Accepts character values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format, and objects of class Date, POSIXt, POSIXct, POSIXlt or anything else than can be coerced to a date with as.Date(). Defaults to the current system date.
house	The house to which the member belongs. Accepts one of 'all', 'lords' and 'commons'. This parameter is not case sensitive. Defaults to 'all'.
party	All members from a given party who joined between the two dates. The party name must be fully spelled out (e.g. 'green party'), the API does not accept searches on this parameter. For a tibble of parties, see ref_parties(). This parameter is not case sensitive. Defaults to NULL.
eligible	If the member is currently eligible to sit. Accepts one of 'all', 'current', 'former'. This parameter is not case sensitive. Defaults to 'all'.
tidy	If TRUE, fixes the variable names in the tibble to remove non-alphanumeric characters and superfluous text, and convert to a consistent style. Defaults to TRUE.
tidy_style	The style to convert variable names to, if tidy=TRUE. Accepts one of "snake_case", "camelCase" and "period.case". Defaults to "snake_case".

Value

A tibble with data on all members who joined between the two given dates.

Examples

## Not run: 
x <- mnis_joined_between(
  start_date = "2015-01-01",
  end_date = "2017-01-01", party = "labour"
)

## End(Not run)

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