legiPersonJSON: Legiscan Legislator Data
In wbuchanan/legiscanR: R interface to the LegiScan API

Description Usage Arguments Value See Also Examples

Parses and arranges JSON data from Legiscan master data downloads people subdirectory

1	legiPersonJSON(file)

file

A JSON file object from the people subdirectory

Creates a list object containing a data frame for identifying individual legislators

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

# Create directory object
directoryTree <- fileStructure("data/msHistoricalJSON/")

# Create file list object
files <- fileLists(directoryTree)

# Parse/clean the full bill text data from a LegiScan bill file
aLegislator <- legiPersonJSON(files[["people"]][[10]][[12]])