legiscanVotes: Legiscan Voting Data

In wbuchanan/legiscanR: R interface to the LegiScan API

Description

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

Usage

legiscanVotes(file)

Arguments

file	An XML 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; legiVotesJSON; legiscanBill; legiscanPerson; 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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