getAllVotes: Get several votes
In umatter/pvsR: Interact with the Project Vote Smart API for Scientific Research

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References Examples

This function is essentially a wrapper around Votes.getBillActionVotes() specified for large amount of requests.

1	getAllVotes(actionId, batchsize=100, pause=0, backupfile="votes.list.Rdata")

`actionId`	a character string or list of character strings with the action ID(s) (see references for details)
`batchsize`	numerical, indicating how many actionIds should be processed in one batch (defaults to 100).
`pause`	numerical, indicating how long (in seconds) the download process should be paused after each batch (defaults to 0)
`backupfile`	character string for the path/file-name of the Rdata-file where the data should be saved (batch-wise) during the download process (default: "votes.list.Rdata").

This functions splits large requests into several batches. The requests are then processed batch-wise and are saved on the local disc to make sure that not too much RAM is assigned to the pvsR task.

A data frame with a row for each vote and columns with the following variables describing the vote:
votes.vote*.candidateId,
votes.vote*.candidateName,
votes.vote*.officeParties,
votes.vote*.action.

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 all officials of a certain state
## Not run: bill <- Votes.getBill("17623", separate=c("actions", "sponsors"))
## Not run: actionids <- bill$actions$actionId
# get all votes on this acti
## Not run: votes <- getAllVotes(actionids, batchsize=2)
## Not run: head(votes)