README.md

In or-house-vis/history: History of the Oregon House of Representatives

history

history provides historical data on the Oregon State Legislature.

Currently it contains a chronological list of the House of Representatives based on the list on Chronological List of Oregon Representatives from 1841 to Present on the Chief Clerk's Office website.

If you aren't an R user you may still find the data in chronology-patched.csv useful.

Installation

You can install development version of history with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("or-house-vis/history")

House Representatives

A historical list of the representatives in the Oregon State House of Representatives is in house_reps:

library(history)
house_reps
#> # A tibble: 7,391 x 12
#>    session_name legislator district role  party residence gender
#>    <chr>        <chr>         <dbl> <chr> <chr> <chr>     <chr> 
#>  1 1849 Regular Mulkey, H…        1 <NA>  <NA>  Benton    Male  
#>  2 1849 Regular Smith, G.…        2 <NA>  <NA>  Benton    Male  
#>  3 1849 Regular Chapman, …        3 <NA>  <NA>  Champoeg  Male  
#>  4 1849 Regular Matlock, …        4 <NA>  <NA>  Champoeg  Male  
#>  5 1849 Regular Walling, …        6 <NA>  <NA>  Clackamas Male  
#>  6 1849 Regular Lovejoy, …        7 Spea… <NA>  Clackamas Male  
#>  7 1849 Regular Holman, W…        8 <NA>  <NA>  Clackamas Male  
#>  8 1849 Regular Simmons, …        9 <NA>  <NA>  Clatsop,… Male  
#>  9 1849 Regular Conser, J…       10 <NA>  <NA>  Linn      Male  
#> 10 1849 Regular Dunlap, J…       11 <NA>  <NA>  Linn      Male  
#> # … with 7,381 more rows, and 5 more variables: desk_number <int>,
#> #   profession <chr>, notes <chr>, session_year <dbl>, regular <lgl>

The data comes from the Chronological List of Oregon Representatives from 1841 to Present. You can see when the data in this package was retrieved with:

attr(house_reps, "retrieved")
#> [1] "2018-12-14 09:39:06 UTC"

The data parsing steps can be found in /data-raw, in particular the data in the package in CSV form can be found in chronology-patched.csv.

Some patches are made to the data, you can see the changes in the data-raw/README.md.

License

The source code to gather the data and to generate the R package are released under an MIT license.

or-house-vis/history documentation built on May 15, 2019, 1:11 p.m.