Votes.getBillActionVoteByOfficial: Get a single vote according to official and action

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

Description

This function is a wrapper for the Votes.getBillActionVoteByOfficial() method of the PVS API Votes class which grabs single vote according to official and action. The function sends a request with this method to the PVS API for all action and candidate 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

Votes.getBillActionVoteByOfficial(actionId, candidateId)

Arguments

actionId	a character string or list of character strings with the action ID(s) (see references for details)
candidateId	a character string or list of character strings with the candidate ID(s) (see references for details)

Value

A data frame with a row for each vote and columns with the following variables describing the vote:
votes.vote.candidateId,
votes.vote.candidateName,
votes.vote.officeParties,
votes.vote.action.

Author(s)

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

References

http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Votes.html
Use Candidates.getByOfficeState(), Candidates.getByOfficeTypeState(), Candidates.getByLastname(), Candidates.getByLevenshtein(), Candidates.getByElection(), Candidates.getByDistrict() or Candidates.getByZip() to get a list of candidate IDs.
Use Votes.getBill() or Votes.getByOfficial() to get a list of action 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 votes
## Not run: vote <- Votes.getBillActionVoteByOfficial(list(28686,31712),9490)
## Not run: vote

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