Measure.getMeasure: Get details of a ballot measure

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

Description

This function is a wrapper for the Measure.getMeasure() method of the PVS API Measure class which grabs details of a ballot measure. The function sends a request with this method to the PVS API for all measure 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

Measure.getMeasure(measureId)

Arguments

measureId

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

Value

A data frame with a row for each ballot measure and columns with the following variables describing the ballot measure:
measure.measureId,
measure.measureCode,
measure.title,
measure.electionDate,
measure.electionType,
measure.source,
measure.url,
measure.summary,
measure.summaryUrl,
measure.measureText,
measure.textUrl,
measure.proUrl,
measure.conUrl,
measure.yes,
measure.no,
measure.outcome.

Author(s)

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

References

http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Measure.html
Use Measure.getMeasuresByYearState() to get a list of measure 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 details on certain ballot measures
## Not run: measure <- Measure.getMeasure(list(1632,1633))
## Not run: measure

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