legiBillHist: Legiscan Bill Historical Data
In wbuchanan/legiscanR: R interface to the LegiScan API

Description Usage Arguments Value See Also Examples

Parses and arranges JSON output from Legiscan master data downloads bills subdirectory

1	legiBillHist(fileobject)

fileobject

A JSON file object from the bills subdirectory

Creates a list object containing a data frame for the history of the bill

Other Parsing and Cleaning LegiScan Data: billids; fileLists; fileStructure; getFullText; legiBillJSON; legiBillMeta; legiBillProg; legiBillSpons; legiBillTxt; legiPersonJSON; legiVotesJSON; legiscanBill; legiscanPerson; legiscanVotes; xjformat

# Create the directory tree in an object
directoryTree <- fileStructure("data/msHistoricalJSON/")

# Store the file path/structure in a new object to reference files for parsing
files <- fileLists(directoryTree)

# Parse the bill history data from a bill file
history <- legiBillHist(files[["bills"]][[10]][[12]])