Votes.getBillAction: Get detailed action information on a certain stage of the...
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 Votes.getBillAction() method of the PVS API Votes class which grabs detailed action information on a certain stage of the bill. The function sends a request with this method to the PVS API for all action 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	Votes.getBillAction(actionId)

actionId

a character string or list of character strings with the action ID(s) (see references for details)

A data frame with a row for each action and columns with the following variables describing the action:
action.billId,
action.billNumber,
action.actionId,
action.category,
action.categoryId,
action.type,
action.stateId,
action.level,
action.stage,
action.outcome,
action.rollNumber,
action.yea,
action.nay,
action.voiceVote,
action.title,
action.officialTitle,
action.highlight,
action.synopsis,
action.officialSynopsis,
action.note.

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

http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Votes.html
Use Votes.getBill() or Votes.getByOfficial() to get a list of action 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 information about certain actions
## Not run: actioninfo <- Votes.getBillAction(actionId=list(2575,18436,10194))
## Not run: actioninfo