Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples
This function is a wrapper for the State.getState() method of the PVS API State class which grabs various data on a 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 | State.getState(stateId)
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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 state and columns with the following variables describing the state:
state.details.stateId,
state.details.stateType,
state.details.name,
state.details.nickName,
state.details.capital,
state.details.area,
state.details.population,
state.details.statehood,
state.details.motto,
state.details.flower,
state.details.tree,
state.details.bird,
state.details.highPoint,
state.details.lowPoint,
state.details.bicameral,
state.details.upperLegis,
state.details.lowerLegis,
state.details.ltGov,
state.details.senators,
state.details.reps,
state.details.termLimit,
state.details.termLength,
state.details.billUrl,
state.details.voteUrl,
state.details.voterReg,
state.details.primaryDate,
state.details.generalDate,
state.details.absenteeWho,
state.details.absenteeHow,
state.details.absenteeWhen,
state.details.largestCity,
state.details.rollUpper,
state.details.rollLower,
state.details.usCircuit.
Ulrich Matter <ulrich.matter-at-unibas.ch>
http://api.votesmart.org/docs/State.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
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 information about certain states
## Not run: stateinfo <- State.getState(list("FL","NY"))
## Not run: stateinfo
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