request: Request data from openelections API

In GShotwell/openelections: Wrapper for openelections API

Description

Request data from openelections API

Usage

request(state, start_date, end_date = "2012-01-01", offset = NULL,
  output = "dataframe")

Arguments

state	Two letter state capitalized state abbreviation.
start_date	Start date of dataset, must be after 2000-01-01.
end_date	End year of dataset, must be before 2014-12-31
offset	API returns batches of 20, so if querying more than twenty records, you need to run two queries and specify the offset value for the second query. Offset defaults to 0.
output	Do you want to return a "dataframe" or a "list". The list includes additional information about the API call.

Value

A dataframe or list

Examples

request("MD", 2010)
request("NY", start_date = 2002, end_date = 2007)

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