Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples
This function is a wrapper for the Votes.getBillsByCategoryYearState() method of the PVS API Votes class which grabs a list of bills according to category, year and state. The function sends a request with this method to the PVS API for all years, state and category 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.getBillsByCategoryYearState(year, stateId, categoryId)
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year |
a character string or list of character strings with the year ID(s) |
stateId |
a character string or list of character strings with the state ID(s) (see references for details) |
categoryId |
a character string or list of character strings with the category ID(s) (see references for details) |
A data frame with a row for each bill and columns with the following variables describing the bill:
bills.bill*.billId,
bills.bill*.billNumber,
bills.bill*.title,
bills.bill*.type.
Ulrich Matter <ulrich.matter-at-unibas.ch>
http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Votes.html
Use State.getStateIDs() to get a list of state IDs.
Use Votes.getCategories() or Rating.getCandidateRating() to get a list of category IDs.
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 a list of bills in a certain category, year and state
## Not run: bills <- Votes.getBillsByCategoryYearState(as.list(2010:2012),"NY",10)
## Not run: bills
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