collectCommittee: Collecting Committee Information from a 'scrapeBill' Object.

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

Description

Collect information regarding committees considering the bill.

Usage

collectCommittee(x, single = TRUE, progress = FALSE)

Arguments

x	A (or A list of) scrapeBill object created by scrapeBill function.
single	Whether to export single row results (see following description). The default is TRUE.
progress	If TRUE, show progress bar for the processing of multiple bills.

Value

If single==TRUE, returns data.frame object with following information (single row):

• Committee_N: Number of Committees the Bill Referred to

• Committee_Names: Name(s) of Referred Committees (If multiple committees, divided by ;)

If single==FALSE, A data.frame object containing following variables (rows represent date of activity):

• Date: Date of Committee Activity

• Main: Name of Committee

• Sub: Name of Subcommittee, if any

• Activity: Content of Activity

• Reports: Name of Reports, if any

See Also

scrapeBill and getscrapeBill

Examples

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

gentok/congressbills documentation built on Jan. 21, 2020, 5:37 a.m.