Rating.getCategories: Get categories that contain released ratings according to...
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 Rating.getCategories() method of the PVS API Rating class which dumps categories that contain released ratings according to state. The function sends a request with this method to the PVS API for all 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	Rating.getCategories(stateId="NA")

stateId

(optional) a character string or list of character strings with the stateId(s) (default: "NA", for national) (see references for details)

A data frame with a row for each rating and columns with the following variables describing the rating:
categories.category*.categoryId,
categories.category*.name.

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

http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Rating.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 rating categories
## Not run: rating <- Rating.getCategories()
## Not run: rating