getBills: Gets the bills depending on U.S.Congress, branch, and offsets

In nadinesk/proPubBills: 'ProPublica' U.S. Congress Bills API wrapper

Description

Gets the bills depending on U.S.Congress, branch, and offsets

Usage

getBills(key, congress, branch, type, numFrom, numTo)

Arguments

key	is the api key
congress	it the number of the U.S. Congress: for example, 114 for the 114th U.S. Congress
branch	is the House or the Senate branch
type	is the type of bills; options are introduced, updated, active, passed, enacted, vetoed
numFrom	is the offset number beginning range: for example, 1 will get the first 20 bills
numTo	is the offset number to: for example, 40 will get bills 40 to 60. Entering numFrom as 1 and numTo as 40 will return bills 1 to 60

Value

returns a dataframe with all bills and info from the API within the arguments' parameters

Author(s)

Nadine Fischoff, [e-mail]

References

https://projects.propublica.org/api-docs/congress-api/

Examples

## Not run: 
congress_115_enacted <- getBills(api_key,"115","house","enacted",1,500)
congress_114_introduced <- getBills(api_key,"114","senate","introduced",1,100)

## End(Not run)

nadinesk/proPubBills documentation built on May 29, 2019, 6:40 a.m.