Committee.getCommitteeMembers: Get a list of members of a committee

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.getCommitteeMembers() method of the PVS API Committee class which returns a list of members of a committee. 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.getCommitteeMembers(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 member and columns with the following variables describing the committee member:
committeeMembers.committee.committeeId,
committeeMembers.committee.parentId,
committeeMembers.committee.name,
committeeMembers.member*.candidateId,
committeeMembers.member*.title,
committeeMembers.member*.firstName,
committeeMembers.member*.middleName,
committeeMembers.member*.lastName,
committeeMembers.member*.suffix,
committeeMembers.member*.party,
committeeMembers.member*.position.

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 a list of members of certain committees
## Not run: comember <- Committee.getCommitteeMembers(1)
## Not run: comember

pvsR documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:16 a.m.