Local.getCounties: Get counties in a state

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

Description

This function is a wrapper for the Local.getCounties() method of the PVS API Local class which returns a list of counties in a state. The function sends a request with this method to the PVS API for all state 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

Local.getCounties(stateId)

Arguments

stateId

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

Value

A data frame with a row for each county and columns with the following variables describing the county:
counties.county*.localId,
counties.county*.name,
counties.county*.url.

Author(s)

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

References

http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Local.html
Use State.getStateIDs() to get a list of state IDs.

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 counties of a certain state
## Not run: counties <- Local.getCounties(list("NY","FL"))
## Not run: head(counties)

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