legiscanPerson: Legiscan Legislator Data
In wbuchanan/legiscanR: R interface to the LegiScan API
Description
Usage
Arguments
Value
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Examples
View source: R/legiscanPerson.R
Description
Parses and arranges XML dumps from
Legiscan master data dumps people subdirectory
Usage
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Arguments
file
An XML file object from the people subdirectory
Value
Creates a list object containing a data frame
for identifying individual legislators
See Also
Other Parsing and Cleaning LegiScan Data: billids;
fileLists; fileStructure;
getFullText; legiBillHist;
legiBillJSON; legiBillMeta;
legiBillProg; legiBillSpons;
legiBillTxt; legiPersonJSON;
legiVotesJSON; legiscanBill;
legiscanVotes; xjformat
Examples
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# Build directory structure from master data downloads
directoryTree <- fileStructure("data/msHistorical/")
# Create object with all file references stored in it
files <- fileLists(directoryTree)
# Pass the function a bill object for processing
people <- legiscanPerson(files[["people"]])
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Description Usage Arguments Value See Also Examples
View source: R/legiscanPerson.R
Description
Parses and arranges XML dumps from Legiscan master data dumps people subdirectory
Usage
1 |
Arguments
file |
An XML file object from the people subdirectory |
Value
Creates a list object containing a data frame for identifying individual legislators
See Also
Other Parsing and Cleaning LegiScan Data: billids;
fileLists; fileStructure;
getFullText; legiBillHist;
legiBillJSON; legiBillMeta;
legiBillProg; legiBillSpons;
legiBillTxt; legiPersonJSON;
legiVotesJSON; legiscanBill;
legiscanVotes; xjformat
Examples
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | # Build directory structure from master data downloads
directoryTree <- fileStructure("data/msHistorical/")
# Create object with all file references stored in it
files <- fileLists(directoryTree)
# Pass the function a bill object for processing
people <- legiscanPerson(files[["people"]])
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