mnis_mps_on_date: All MPs between two dates

Description Usage Arguments Value See Also Examples

View source: R/mnis_mps_on_date.R

Description

Requests data on all MPs who were members of the House of Commons on the date specified, (if only date1 is included as a parameter), or on or between the two dates if both date1 and date2 are specified. Either date1 or date2 can be the latter of the two dates.

Usage

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mnis_mps_on_date(
  date1 = Sys.Date(),
  date2 = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake_case"
)

Arguments

date1

The date to return the list of mps from. 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 current system date.

date2

An optional query parameter. 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(). If not NULL, the function returns a list of all MPs who were members between date1 and date2. Defaults to NULL.

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 information on all MPs who were members of the House of Commons on the date specificed (if only date1 is included as a parameter), or on or between the two dates if both date1 and date2 are specified.

See Also

mnis_party_state()

mnis_peers_on_date()

Examples

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## Not run: 
x <- mnis_mps_on_date(date1 = "2017-01-01", date2 = "2014-02-04")

## End(Not run)

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