In fanghuiz/legiscanrr: API wrapper for LegiScan

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  warning = FALSE,
  message = FALSE
)

library(legiscanrr)
library(dplyr)

Bill metadata

Bill meta-data. Returned from parse_bill() function.

• bill_id: Internal identifier for bill used by LegiScan.
• change_hash: MD5 hash of bill detail information
• url: LegiScan URL for bill detail
• state_link: State legislature URL for bill detail
• status: Final status of the bill. Numeric id, See lookup table vignette for descriptions.
• status_date: Date of final status
• state: Abbreviation of the State
• state_id: Internal identifier for state. (note: 1-50 for states, 51-DC, 52-Congress)
• bill_number: Bill number as assigned in legislative session. Not unique identifier. Only unique within state-session.
• bill_type: Type of the bill instrument text. See lookup table vignette for descriptions.
• bill_type_id: See above above.
• body: Originating body/chamber for the bill
• body_id: Internal identifier for body
• current_body: Current body/chamber
• current_body_id: Internal identifier for body
• title: Short title of bill
• description: Long title and description of bill
• pending_committee_id: Internal identifier for committee
• session_id: Internal identifier for legislative session
• session_name: Session name
• session_title: Normalized session title
• year_start: Starting year of the session
• year_end: Ending year of the session
• special: Flag for special sessions (0, 1)

HB1 <- system.file("extdata", "bill/HB1.json", package = "legiscanrr")

parse_bill(HB1) %>% rmarkdown::paged_table()

Bill full text

Bill text information. Returned from get_bill_text(). See decode_bill_text() and vignette for how to retrieve text from the base64 encoded document.

• doc_id: Internal identifier for bill text document
• bill_id: Internal identifier for bill
• date: Date of text (if available)
• type: Type of draft text. See lookup table vignette for descriptions.
• type_id: Internal identifier for bill text type
• doc: Base64 encoded document

get_bill_text(doc_id = 1877162)

Bill progress

Returned from parse_bill_progress() function. Includes important event only. Not complete action history.

• date: Progress event date
• event: Internal identifier for progress event type id. See lookup table vignette for descriptions.
• bill_id: Internal identifier for bill

parse_bill_progress(HB1) %>% rmarkdown::paged_table()

Bill sponsors

Returned from parse_bill_sponsor().

• people_id: Internal identifier for legislator
• party_id: Internal identifier for party
• party: Legislator party affiliation
• name: Legislator full name
• sponsor_type_id: Internal identifier for sponsor type. See lookup table vignette for descriptions.
• sponsor_order: Index of order in sponsorship list
• committee_sponsor: Flag for committee sponsor (0, 1)
• committee_id: Internal identifier for committee
• bill_id: Internal identifier for bill

parse_bill_sponsor(HB1) %>% rmarkdown::paged_table()

Legislator information

Returned from parse_people().

• people_id: Internal identifier for legislator
• person_hash: MD5 hash for legislator personal detail information
• state_id: Internal identifier for state
• party_id: Internal identifier for party
• party: Legislator party affiliation
• role_id: Internal identifier for legislator role
• role: Legislator role (e.g. representative, senator)
• name: Legislator full name
• first_namev
• middle_name
• last_name
• suffix
• nickname
• district: Legislative district
• ftm_eid: FollowTheMoney.org EID
• votesmart_id: VoteSmart.org ID
• opensecrets_id: OpenSecrets.org ID (Congress Only)
• ballotpedia: Ballotpedia name
• committee_sponsor: Flag for committee sponsor (0, 1)
• committee_id: Internal identifier for committee

person_8630 <- system.file("extdata", "people/8630.json", package = "legiscanrr")
parse_people(person_8630) %>% rmarkdown::paged_table()

Legislator vote records

Returned from parse_person_vote().

• people_id: Internal identifier for legislator
• vote_id: Numeric id for vote
• vote_text: Description of vote (Yea/Nay/Abstain/Absent)
• roll_call_id: Internal identifier for roll call vote

vote_154366 <- system.file("extdata", "vote/154366.json", package = "legiscanrr")
parse_person_vote(vote_154366) %>% rmarkdown::paged_table()

Roll call votes

Returned from parse_rollcall_vote().

• roll_call_id: Internal identifier for roll call vote
• bill_id: Internal identifier for bill
• date: Vote date
• desc: Description of vote
• yea: Count of Yea votes
• nay: Count of Nay votes
• nv: Count of not voting/abstain
• absent: Count of absents
• total: Total number of votes
• passed: Vote passage (0, 1)
• chamber: Chamber of vote
• chamber_id: Internal identifier for chamber

parse_rollcall_vote(vote_154366) %>% rmarkdown::paged_table()

Keys for join

fanghuiz/legiscanrr documentation built on Jan. 13, 2020, 4:51 a.m.