R/ppc_committees.R

In ppcong: Interfacing with ProPublica's 'Congress' API

#' Committees
#'
#' Lists of Committees
#'
#' @inheritParams ppc_members
#' @examples
#' \dontrun{
#' ## get committes info for house members in 115th congress
#' h115com <- ppc_committees("115", "house")
#' }
#' @return A data frame of congressional committees information
#' @export
ppc_committees <- function(congress = "116", chamber = c("joint", "house", "senate"),
                           api_key = NULL, raw = FALSE) {
  ppc_request(ppc_committees_call(congress, chamber), api_key, raw)
}

## build the call URL
ppc_committees_call <- function(congress = "116", chamber = c("joint", "house", "senate")) {
  stopifnot(
    is_congress_number(congress)
  )
  ppc_base() %P% as_congress_number(congress) %P% "/" %P% match.arg(chamber) %P% "/committees.json"
}

ppc_parse_committees <- function(r) {
  headers <- ppc_headers(r)
  d <- ppc_parse_results(r)[["committees"]][[1]]
  if (is.null(d)) {
    d <- tibble::tibble()
  }
  attr(d, "headers") <- headers
  if (nrow(d) > 0) {
    d$ppc_request_timestamp <- ppc_request_timestamp(headers)
  }
  tibble::as_tibble(d)
}