obterVotacaoProposicao: Get Votes on a Proposal

In leobarone/bRasilLegis: R Tools for Brazilian Chamber of Deputies (Camara Dos Deputados) Data

Description

Returns a data frame containing all the roll call votes for the requested proposal and individual votes at Camara dos Deputados. bancada is an optional parameter and if bancada = TRUE, leadership votes will be returned instead of individual legislators' votes. Note that when a proposal goes to the floor every amendment, substitute proposal etc, will be submitted for voting, not only the main proposal (for example, one data frame may contain several different votes regarding the requested proposal).

Usage

obterVotacaoProposicao(tipo, numero, ano, bancada = F)

Arguments

tipo	character, the type of the proposal(s) (check listarSiglasTipoProposicao function for help), which is part of the name of the proposal(s).
numero	integer, the number of the proposal(s) (check listarSiglasTipoProposicao function for help), which is part of the name of the proposal(s).
ano	integer, the year of the proposal(s) (check listarSiglasTipoProposicao function for help), which is part of the name of the proposal(s) and represents the year the proposal was written.
bancada	logic, if TRUE, leadership votes will be returned instead of individual legislators' votes.

Value

A data frame containing all the roll call votes for the requested proposal and individual votes.

Author(s)

Leonardo Sangali Barone; Alexia Aslan

Examples

# Return the roll call votes for the Proposta de Emenda a Constituicao 358 de 2013 (constitutional
# amendment 358 of 2013) voted in 2015
votesPec358.2013 <- obterVotacaoProposicao(tipo = "PEC", numero = 358,ano = 2013)
head(votesPec358.2013)

# Return the leadership votes for the Proposta de Emenda a Constituicao 358 de 2013 (constitutional
# amendment 358 of 2013) voted in 2015
bancadaPec358.2013 <- obterVotacaoProposicao(tipo = "PEC", numero = 358,ano = 2013, bancada = TRUE)
head(bancadaPec358.2013)

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