Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples
This function is a wrapper for the Leadership.getPositions() method of the PVS API Leadership class which returns leadership positions by state and office. The function sends a request with this method to the PVS API for all state and office IDs given as a function input, extracts the XML values from the returned XML file(s) and returns them arranged in one data frame.
1 | Leadership.getPositions(stateId="NA", officeId=NULL)
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stateId |
(optional) a character string or list of character strings with the state ID(s) (default: "NA", for national) (see references for details) |
officeId |
(optional) a character string or list of character strings with the office ID(s) (default: All) (see references for details) |
A data frame with a row for each leadership position and
columns with the following variables describing the
position:
leadership.position*.leadershipId,
leadership.position*.name,
leadership.position*.officeId,
leadership.position*.officeName.
Ulrich Matter <ulrich.matter-at-unibas.ch>
http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Leadership.html
Use
State.getStateIDs() to get a list of state IDs.
See
http://api.votesmart.org/docs/semi-static.html for a list
of office IDs or use Office.getOfficesByType(),
Office.getOfficesByLevel(), Office.getOfficesByTypeLevel()
or Office.getOfficesByBranchLevel() to get a list of office
ID(s).
1 2 3 4 5 | # First, make sure your personal PVS API key is saved as character string in the pvs.key variable:
## Not run: pvs.key <- "yourkey"
# get leadership positions by state ID and office ID
## Not run: positions <- Leadership.getPositions(list("AL","FL"),8)
## Not run: positions
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