collectBillData: Collecting Bill Information from a 'scrapeBill' Object.

In gentok/congressbills: Extract and Manipulate Information of US Congress Bills

Description

Collect Bill Information and Put Into Data Frame.

Usage

collectBillData(x, include = c("BillID", "URL", "Title", "Summary",
  "Sponsorship", "Action", "Committee", "Subject"), expand = "None",
  progress = FALSE)

Arguments

x	A (or A list of) scrapeBill object created by scrapeBill function.
include	character vector of What element(s) of bill information to include in output. Options are "BillID", "URL", "Title", "Summary", "Sponsorship", "Action", "Committee", "Subject", and "Text". The default is to include everything except for "Text". Need at least one element. Information set by this option uses single row output (i.e., Set officialonly, latestonly, single, and allinone to TRUE in collectOPTION functions).
expand	The default is "None" (not to expand data). Else, create long data by using expanded information (i.e., Set officialonly, latestonly, single, and allinone to FALSE in collectOPTION functions). Choose option from ONE of "Title", "Summary", "Sponsorship", "Action", "Committee", "Subject", and "Text". CANNOT set more than one option.
progress	If TRUE, show progress bar for the processing of multiple bills.

Value

A data.frame object of bill information. See functions in See Also section for variable details.

See Also

collectBillID, collectTitle, collectSummary, collectSponsorship, collectAction, collectCommittee, collectSubject, collectText, scrapeBill, and getscrapeBill

Examples

tgturl <- "https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/252"
bill252 <- scrapeBill(tgturl)
collectBillData(bill252)

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