Votes.getVetoes: Get a list of vetoes according to candidate
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.getVetoes() method of the PVS API Votes class which returns a list of vetoes according to candidate. The function sends a request with this method to the PVS API for all candidate 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.getVetoes(candidateId)

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 veto and columns with the following variables describing the veto:
bills.bill*.vetoId,
bills.bill*.statusDate,
bills.bill*.billId,
bills.bill*.billNumber,
bills.bill*.billTitle,
bills.bill*.vetoCode,
bills.bill*.vetoType,
bills.bill*.billSummary,
bills.bill*.billLink,
bills.bill*.vetoLetterLink.

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.
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 vetoes by Barack Obama
## Not run: vetoes <- Votes.getVetoes(9490)
## Not run: vetoes