legiBillHist: Legiscan Bill Historical Data

Description Usage Arguments Value See Also Examples

View source: R/legiBillHist.R

Description

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

Usage

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legiBillHist(fileobject)

Arguments

fileobject

A JSON file object from the bills subdirectory

Value

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

See Also

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

Examples

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# 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]])

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