getBill: Get Bill URL or HTML by Bill Number

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

Description

Get Bill Suummary Page URL or scrapeBill object by Bill Number and Congress Number.

Usage

getBill(number, congress, chamber = "House", type = "Bill",
  out = "URL")

getscrapeBill(number, congress, chamber = "House", type = "Bill")

getBillDF(infoDF, out = "URL", progress = FALSE)

getscrapeBillDF(infoDF, progress = TRUE)

Arguments

number	numeric scalar of Bill number
congress	numeric scalar of Congress number
chamber	Choose from "House" (default) or "Senate"
type	Choose from "Bill" (default), "Simple Resolution", "Joint Resolution", "Concurrent Resolution", and "Amendment"
out	The output type. "URL" (default) to export bill summary page URL and "scrapeBill" to export "scrapeBill" object.
infoDF	(Only used in getBillDF function) data.frame object with columns number, congress, chamber, and type. Rows should represent individual bills.
progress	(Only used in getBillDF function) If TRUE, show progress bar for the processing of multiple bills.

Value

character scalar of URL or "scrapeBill" object.

See Also

scrapeBill, read_scrapeBill, and write_scrapeBill

Examples

a <- getBill(1, 103)
b <- scrapeBill(a)
collectBillID(b)

a <- getBill(1, 103, "Senate", "Joint Resolution")
b <- scrapeBill(a)
collectBillID(b)

a <- getBill(1, 101, out="scrapeBill")
collectBillID(a)

a <- data.frame(number = c(1,2,3,4),
                congress = c(103,104,108,109),
                chamber = "House",
                type = "Bill")
b <- getBillDF(a, out="scrapeBill")
collectBillID(b)
                

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