legiVotesJSON: Legiscan Voting Data

In wbuchanan/legiscanR: R interface to the LegiScan API

Description

Parses and arranges JSON data from Legiscan master data dumps vote subdirectory

Usage

legiVotesJSON(file)

Arguments

file	A JSON file object from the vote subdirectory

Value

Creates a list object containing a data frame for voting metadata and individual legislators' votes

See Also

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

Examples

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

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

# Parse/clean the voting records data from a LegiScan votes file
votes <- legiscanVotes(files[["votes"]])

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