search_committee: Search Committee

In elgarteo/legco: R Bindings for the Hong Kong Legislative Council API

Search Committee

Description

Search committee by full or partial name of committee.

Usage

search_committee(search_string, term_id = NULL, exact = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)

legco_search_committee(
  search_string,
  term_id = NULL,
  exact = TRUE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

search_string	search string of committee name. Accepts Chinese or English full or partial name. Defaults to NULL.
term_id	the id of a term, or a vector of ids. If NULL, returns results of all terms. Defaults to NULL.
exact	logical: Whether to look for exact match of the search term. Defaults to TRUE.
verbose	logical: Whether to display progress messages when fetching data? Defaults to TRUE.

Details

This is a complementary function to voting_record().

Functions

Complementary Functions:

• search_committee: Search LegCo committees

• search_member: Search LegCo members

• search_voting_record: Search Voting Record in LegCo meetings

• search_question: Search full text of question put to the government by LegCo members

Notes

The complementary functions work by calling a number of database functions and combining their output, meaning that a function call usually involves multiple API calls. Use with caution to prevent reaching the API’s rate limit too quickly.

Examples

# Search all Bills Committees established in the sixth term of LegCo
x <- search_committee(search_string = "bills committee", term_id = 5)

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