R/Office.getBranches.R

In umatter/pvsR: Interact with the Project Vote Smart API for Scientific Research

##' Get a list of branches of government and their IDs
##' 
##' This function is a wrapper for the Office.getBranches() method of the PVS API Office class which grabs a list of branches of government and their IDs.
##' @usage Office.getBranches()
##' @return A data frame with a row for each branch and columns with the following variables describing the branch:\cr branches.branch*.officeBranchId,\cr branches.branch*.name.
##' @references http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Office.html\cr
##' 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
##' @author Ulrich Matter <ulrich.matter-at-unibas.ch>
##' @examples
##' # First, make sure your personal PVS API key is saved as an option
##' # (options("pvs.key" = "yourkey")) or in the pvs.key variable:
##' \dontrun{pvs.key <- "yourkey"}
##' # get a list of government branches and their IDs
##' \dontrun{branches <- Office.getBranches()}
##' \dontrun{branches}

##' @export


Office.getBranches <-
	function () {

		request <-  "Office.getBranches?"
		inputs  <-  ""
		output  <-  pvsRequest4(request,inputs)
		
		return(output)
		
		}