Office.getBranches: Get a list of branches of government and their IDs

In umatter/pvsR: Interact with the Project Vote Smart API for Scientific Research

Description

This function is a wrapper for the Office.getBranches() method of the PVS API Office class which grabs a list of branches of government and their IDs.

Usage

Office.getBranches()

Value

A data frame with a row for each branch and columns with the following variables describing the branch:
branches.branch*.officeBranchId,
branches.branch*.name.

Author(s)

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

References

http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Office.html
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

Examples

# 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 government branches and their IDs
## Not run: branches <- Office.getBranches()
## Not run: branches

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