Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples
This function is a wrapper for the Votes.getBillsByOfficialCategoryOffice() method of the PVS API Votes class which grabs a list of bills that fit the candidate and category. The function sends a request with this method to the PVS API for all category, candidate and office 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 | Votes.getBillsByOfficialCategoryOffice(categoryId, candidateId, officeId=NULL)
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categoryId |
a character string or list of character strings with the category ID(s) (see references for details) |
candidateId |
a character string or list of character strings with the candidate ID(s) (see references for details) |
officeId |
(optional) a character string or list of character strings with the office ID(s) (default: all) (see references for details) |
A data frame with a row for each bill and columns with the
following variables describing the bill:
bills.bill*.billId,
bills.bill*.billNumber,
bills.bill*.title,
bills.bill*.type.
Ulrich Matter <ulrich.matter-at-unibas.ch>
http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Votes.html
Use
Votes.getCategories() to get a list of category IDs.
Use
Candidates.getByOfficeState(),
Candidates.getByOfficeTypeState(),
Candidates.getByLastname(), Candidates.getByLevenshtein(),
Candidates.getByElection(), Candidates.getByDistrict() or
Candidates.getByZip() to get a list of candidate IDs.
See http://api.votesmart.org/docs/semi-static.html for a
list of office IDs or use Office.getOfficesByType(),
Office.getOfficesByLevel(), Office.getOfficesByTypeLevel()
or Office.getOfficesByBranchLevel().
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 a list of bills of a certain office, candidate and category
## Not run: bills <- Votes.getBillsByOfficialCategoryOffice(list(30,10),9490,6)
## Not run: bills
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