Committee.getTypes: Get the committee types (house, senate, joint, etc.)

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.getTypes() method of the PVS API Committee class which returns the existing committee types.

Usage

Committee.getTypes()

Value

A data frame with a row for each committee type and columns with the following variables describing the committee type:
committeeTypes.type*.committeeTypeId,
committeeTypes.type*.name.

Author(s)

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

References

http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Committee.html

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 the committee types
## Not run: comtypes <- Committee.getTypes()
## Not run: comtypes

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