Measure.getMeasuresByYearState: Get a list of state ballot measures in a given year
In umatter/pvsR: Interact with the Project Vote Smart API for Scientific Research

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples

This function is a wrapper for the Measure.getMeasuresByYearState() method of the PVS API Measure class which grabs a list of state ballot measures in a given year. The function sends a request with this method to the PVS API for all years and state 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	Measure.getMeasuresByYearState(year, stateId)

`year`	a character string or list of character strings with the year(s)
`stateId`	a character string or list of character strings with the state ID(s) (see references for details)

A data frame with a row for each ballot measure and columns with the following variables describing the ballot measure:
measures.measure*.measureId,
measures.measure*.measureCode,
measures.measure*.title,
measures.measure*.outcome.

Ulrich Matter <ulrich.matter-at-unibas.ch>

http://api.v.otesmart.org/docs/Measure.html
Use State.getStateIDs() to get a list of state IDs.
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

# 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 a list of ballot measures for a certain state and year
## Not run: measures <- Measure.getMeasuresByYearState(list(2010,2012),"FL")
## Not run: measures