mnis_mps_on_date: All MPs between two dates

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

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

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

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

## End(Not run)

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