get_election_summary: Get Election Summary

In stephenholzman/tidyusafec: Get Campaign Finance Data into R. tidyusafec uses the OpenFEC API.

Description

Get Election Summary

Usage

get_election_summary(data = NULL, data_structure = "tidy",
  api_key = Sys.getenv("DATAGOV_API_KEY"), district = NULL,
  cycle = NULL, office = NULL, election_full = NULL, state = NULL)

Arguments

data	A dataframe or tibble. Usually this will be the returned result of search_elections(). If columns called cycle, office, district, and state are in the table, . Either this argument or candidate_id is required.
data_structure	A character describing how you want OpenFEC results. Options are 'tidy', 'list', or 'both.' Choose list for raw results.
api_key	API key for https://api.data.gov. Get one at https://api.data.gov/signup.
district	Two-digit US House distirict of the office the candidate is running for. Presidential, Senate and House at-large candidates will have District 00.
cycle	Two-year election cycle in which a candidate runs for office. Calculated from FEC Form 2. The cycle begins with an odd year and is named for its ending, even year. This cycle follows the traditional house election cycle and subdivides the presidential and Senate elections into comparable two-year blocks. To see data for the entire four years of a presidential term or six years of a senatorial term, you will need the election_full flag.
office	Federal office candidate runs for: H, S or P
election_full	Aggregate values over full election period
state	US state or territory where a candidate runs for office

stephenholzman/tidyusafec documentation built on July 29, 2020, 10:38 a.m.