Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples
This function is a wrapper for the Votes.getByOfficial() method of the PVS API Votes class which dumps all the bills an official has voted on based on the candidateId and year. The function sends a request with this method to the PVS API for all candidate IDs and years 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.getByOfficial(year, candidateId)
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year |
a character string or list of character strings with the year(s) |
candidateId |
a character string or list of character strings with the candidate 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.categories.category*.categoryId,
bills.bill.categories.category*.name,
bills.bill*.officeId,
bills.bill*.office,
bills.bill*.vote,
bills.bill*.actionId,
bills.bill*.stage.
Ulrich Matter <ulrich.matter-at-unibas.ch>
http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Votes.html
Use Candidates.getByOfficeState(), Candidates.getByOfficeTypeState(), Candidates.getByLastname(), Candidates.getByLevenshtein(), Candidates.getByElection(), Candidates.getByDistrict() or Candidates.getByZip() to get a list of candidate 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 additional biographical data on Barack Obama
## Not run: votes <- Votes.getByOfficial(as.list(2010:2012),9490)
## Not run: votes
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