Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples
This function is a wrapper for the Officials.getStatewide() method of the PVS API Officials class which grabs a list of officials according to the state they are representing. 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.
1 | Officials.getStatewide(stateId="NA")
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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) |
A data frame with a row for each official and columns with
the following variables describing the official:
candidateList.candidate*.candidateId,
candidateList.candidate*.firstName,
candidateList.candidate*.nickName,
candidateList.candidate*.middleName,
candidateList.candidate*.lastName,
candidateList.candidate*.suffix,
candidateList.candidate*.title,
candidateList.candidate*.electionParties,
candidateList.candidate*.officeParties,
candidatelist.candidate*.officeStatus,
candidateList.candidate*.officeDistrictId,
candidateList.candidate*.officeDistrictName,
candidateList.candidate*.officeTypeId,
candidateList.candidate*.officeId,
candidateList.candidate*.officeName,
candidateList.candidate*.officeStateId.
Ulrich Matter <ulrich.matter-at-unibas.ch>
http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Officials.html
Use
State.getStateIDs() to get a list of state IDs.
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 all officials of a certain state
## Not run: officials <- Officials.getStatewide("FL")
## Not run: head(officials)
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