Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples
This function is a wrapper for the Votes.getBillsByYearState() method of the PVS API Votes class which returns a list of bills that fit the year and state input. The function sends a request with this method to the PVS API for all years and 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 | Votes.getBillsByYearState(year, stateId, all=FALSE)
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year |
a character string or list of character strings with the year(s) |
stateId |
a character string or list of character strings with the state ID(s) (see references for details) |
all |
a logical indicator; if TRUE data on all possible combinations of the stateId and year are returned, if FALSE (default) only the exact combinations (see example) |
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.
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
Ulrich Matter <ulrich.matter-at-unibas.ch>
http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Votes.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 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | # 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 data frame of bills according to all year and state combinations
## Not run: bills <- Votes.getBillsByYearState(year=list(2011,2012),
stateId=list("NY","NJ"), all=TRUE)
## End(Not run)
## Not run: head(bills)
# get a data frame of bills according to the exact year and state combinations
# (i.e., 2011/"NY", 2012/"NJ")
## Not run: bills <- Votes.getBillsByYearState(year=list(2011,2012),
stateId=list("NY","NJ"), all=FALSE)
## End(Not run)
## Not run: head(bills)
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