speakers: Speakers at LegCo

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

Speakers at LegCo

Description

Fetch the basic information of speakers in LegCo council meetings, including LegCo members, government officials and Secretariat staff.

Usage

speakers(
  speaker_id = NULL,
  type = "all",
  extra_param = NULL,
  count = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

legco_speakers(
  speaker_id = NULL,
  type = "all",
  extra_param = NULL,
  count = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

speaker_id	the id of a speaker at the Legislative Council, or a vector of ids. If NULL, returns all speakers. Defaults to NULL.
type	the position of a speaker. "all" returns all speakers. "PO" returns public officers. "LC" returns key appointment holders and staff at LegCo, such as President, Chairman and clerk. "MB" returns LegCo members. Default to "all".
extra_param	additional query parameters defined in LegCo API. Must begin with "&".
count	logical: Whether to return only the total count of records that matches the parameter(s) instead of the result. Defaults to FALSE.
verbose	logical: Whether to display progress messages when fetching data? Defaults to TRUE.

Details

This function corresponds to the Speakers data endpoint of the Hansard Database.

Functions

Functions of the Hansard database:

• hansard: Hansard files

• legco_section_type: Section code

• subjects: Subjects speakers: Speakers in the council, including members, government officials and secretariat staff

• rundown: Rundown (Paragraphs in hansard)

• questions: Questions raised by members

• bills: Bills

• motions: Motions

• petitions: Petitions

• addresses: Addresses made by members or government officials when presenting papers to the Council

• statements: Statements made by government officials

• voting_results: Results of votes in council meetings

• summoning_bells: Instances of summoning bells being rung

See Also

LegCo API documentation for the Hansard database: https://www.legco.gov.hk/en/open-legco/open-data/hansard-database.html

Examples

# Fetch a list of all speakers in LegCo council meetings
x <- speakers()
# Fetch a list of all speakers who are LegCo members
x <- speakers(type = "MB")
# Look up the details of a speaker with the id 6
x <- speakers(speaker_id = 6)

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