Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples
This function is a wrapper for the Office.getOfficesByBranchLevel() method of the PVS API Office class which grabs a list of offices Project Vote Smart keeps track of according to government branch and level. The function sends a request with this method to the PVS API for all branch and level 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 | Office.getOfficesByBranchLevel(branchId, levelId)
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branchId |
a character string or list of character strings with the branch ID(s) (see references for details) |
levelId |
a character string or list of character strings with the level ID(s) (see references for details) |
A data frame with a row for each office and columns with the following variables describing the office:
offices.office*.officeId,
offices.office*.officeTypeId,
offices.office*.officeLevelId,
offices.office*.officeBranchId,
offices.office*.name,
offices.office*.title,
offices.office*.shortTitle.
Ulrich Matter <ulrich.matter-at-unibas.ch>
http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Office.html
Use Office.getBranches() to get branch ID(s).
Use Office.getLevels() to get level 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 offices tracked for all branch and level IDs
## Not run: offices <- Office.getOfficesByBranchLevel(list("E","L","J"),list("F","S","L"))
## Not run: head(offices)
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