Committee.getCommittee: Get detailed committee (contact) information

In pvsR: An R package to interact with the Project Vote Smart API for scientific research

Description

This function is a wrapper for the Committee.getCommittee() method of the PVS API Committee class which returns detailed committee data. The function sends a request with this method to the PVS API for all committee IDs given as a function input, extracts the XML values from the returned XML file(s) and returns them arranged in one data frame.

Usage

Committee.getCommittee(committeeId)

Arguments

committeeId

a character string or list of character strings with the committee ID(s) (see references for details)

Value

A data frame with a row for each committee and columns with the following variables describing the committee:
committee.committeeId,
committee.parentId,
committee.stateId,
committee.committeeTypeId,
committee.name,
committee.jurisdiction,
committee.contact.address1,
committee.contact.address2,
committee.contact.city,
committee.contact.state,
committee.contact.zip,
committee.contact.phone,
committee.contact.fax,
committee.contact.email,
committee.contact.url,
committee.contact.staffContact.

Author(s)

Ulrich Matter <ulrich.matter-at-unibas.ch>

References

http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Committee.html
Use CandidateBio.getBio(), Committee.getCommitteesByTypeState() or Votes.getBill() to get committee ID(s).

Examples

# First, make sure your personal PVS API key is saved as character string in the pvs.key variable:
## Not run: pvs.key <- "yourkey"
# get information about a certain committee
## Not run: committee <- Committee.getCommittee(list(1,2))
## Not run: committee

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