Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples
This function is a wrapper for the Election.getStageCandidates() method of the PVS API Election class which grabs district basic election data according to the election and stage ID. The function sends a request with this method to the PVS API for all election and stage IDs given as a function input, extracts the XML values from the returned XML file(s) and returns them arranged in one data frame.
1 | Election.getStageCandidates(stageId, electionId)
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stageId |
a character string or list of character strings with the stage ID(s) |
electionId |
a character string or list of character strings with the election ID(s) (see references for details) |
A data frame with a row for each combination of stage ID and election and columns with the following variables describing the election:
stagecandidates.election*.electionId,
stagecandidates.election*.name,
stagecandidates.election*.stage,
stagecandidates.election*.stateId,
stagecandidates.candidate*.candidateId,
stagecandidates.candidate*.officeId,
stagecandidates.candidate*.district,
stagecandidates.candidate*.firstName,
stagecandidates.candidate*.middleName,
stagecandidates.candidate*.lastName,
stagecandidates.candidate*.suffix,
stagecandidates.candidate*.party,
stagecandidates.candidate*.status,
stagecandidates.candidate*.voteCount,
stagecandidates.candidate*.votePercent.
Ulrich Matter <ulrich.matter-at-unibas.ch>
http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Election.html
Use Election.getElectionByYearState() or Election.getElectionByZip() to get election ID(s).
See also: Matter U, Stutzer A (2015) pvsR: An Open Source Interface to Big Data on the American Political Sphere. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0130501. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130501
1 2 3 4 5 6 | # First, make sure your personal PVS API key is saved as an option
# (options("pvs.key" = "yourkey")) or in the pvs.key variable:
## Not run: pvs.key <- "yourkey"
# get election data for certain election IDs
## Not run: election <- Election.getStageCandidates(stageId=list("P"),electionId=list(2582,2607))
## Not run: election
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