os_legislatorsearch: Search Legislators on OpenStates.

In rsunlight: Interface to 'Sunlight' Foundation 'APIs'

Description

Search Legislators on OpenStates.

Usage

os_legislatorsearch(state = NULL, first_name = NULL, last_name = NULL,
  chamber = NULL, active = NULL, term = NULL, district = NULL,
  party = NULL, fields = NULL, as = "table", key = NULL, ...)

Arguments

state	state two-letter abbreviation (character)
first_name	first name of legislator (character)
last_name	last name of legislator (character)
chamber	one of 'upper' or 'lower' (character)
active	TRUE or FALSE (character)
term	filter by legislators who served during a certain term (character)
district	legislative district (character)
party	democratic or republican (character)
fields	You can request specific fields by supplying a vector of fields names. Many fields are not returned unless requested. If you don't supply a fields parameter, you will get the most commonly used subset of fields only. To save on bandwidth, parsing time, and confusion, it's recommended to always specify which fields you will be using.
as	(character) One of table (default), list, or response (crul response object)
key	your SunlightLabs API key; loads from .Rprofile
...	Curl options passed on to crul::HttpClient

Value

List of output fields.

Examples

## Not run: 
os_legislatorsearch(state = 'ca', party = 'democratic')
os_legislatorsearch(state = 'tx', party = 'democratic', active = TRUE)
os_legislatorsearch(state = 'nv', party = 'republican')
os_legislatorsearch(state = 'dc', chamber = 'upper')

# pass in more than one value for some parameters
os_legislatorsearch(state = c('dc', 'or'), chamber = 'upper')
os_legislatorsearch(first_name = c('jane', 'bob'), chamber = 'upper')

## End(Not run)

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