sen_senator: Downloads and tidies persnonal information on senators from...

In RobertMyles/congressbr: Downloads, Unpacks and Tidies Legislative Data from the Brazilian Federal Senate and Chamber of Deputies

Description

Downloads and tidies personal information on senators from the Federal Senate.

Usage

sen_senator(
  id = NULL,
  affiliations = TRUE,
  mandates = TRUE,
  absences = FALSE,
  ascii = TRUE
)

Arguments

id	integer. Unique id for a senator. A dataframe of these is available from sen_senator_list().
affiliations	logical. If TRUE, the default, returns information on party affiliation.
mandates	logical. If TRUE, the default, returns information on terms served by the senator.
absences	logical. If TRUE, returns information on leaves of absence taken by the senator.
ascii	logical. If TRUE, certain strings are converted to ascii format.

Value

A tibble, of classes tbl_df, tbl and data.frame.

Note

Setting affiliations, mandates and particularly absences to TRUE will result in a rather bloated data frame.

Author(s)

Robert Myles McDonnell, Guilherme Jardim Duarte & Danilo Freire.

Examples

benedito <- sen_senator(id = 3823)
aecio <- sen_senator(id = 391, absences = TRUE)
juc <- sen_senator(73)

RobertMyles/congressbr documentation built on July 18, 2020, 4:04 a.m.