Rating.getSig: Get detailed information about a special interest group

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

Description

This function is a wrapper for the Rating.getSig() method of the PVS API Rating class which dumps detailed information about special interest groups (SIGs). The function sends a request with this method to the PVS API for all SIG 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

Rating.getSig(sigId)

Arguments

sigId

a character string or list of character strings with the special interest group's ID(s) (see references for details)

Value

A data frame with a row for each special interest group and columns with the following variables describing the special interest group:
sig.sigId,
sig.parentId,
sig.stateId,
sig.name,
sig.description,
sig.address,
sig.city,
sig.state,
sig.zip,
sig.phone1,
sig.phone2,
sig.fax,
sig.email,
sig.url,
sig.contactName.

Author(s)

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

References

http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Rating.html
Use Rating.getSigList() to get a list of special interest group's 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 information about certain special interest groups
## Not run: info <- Rating.getSig(list(1016,1120))
## Not run: info

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