get_ly_legislator_detail: Fetch Legislator Detail Information
In yl17124/legisTaiwan: An Interface to Access Taiwan Legislative API in R

View source: R/get_ly_legislator_detail.R

get_ly_legislator_detail

R Documentation

Fetch Legislator Detail Information

Description

Retrieves detailed information for a specific legislator by term and name from the Legislative Yuan API.

Usage

get_ly_legislator_detail(term, name, show_progress = TRUE)

Arguments

`term`	required integer. Legislative term number (e.g. 9)
`name`	required string. Legislator name (e.g. "王金平")
`show_progress`	logical. Whether to display progress info (default: TRUE)

Details

Get Legislative Yuan Legislator Detail 取得立法委員完整歷史資料

Value

A list containing legislator details:

term: Legislative term number
name: Legislator's name in Chinese
ename: Legislator's name in English
sex: Gender
party: Political party affiliation
partyGroup: Legislative party group
areaName: Represented area
committee: Committee assignments by session
onboardDate: Date took office
degree: Education background
experience: Work experience
picUrl: URL of legislator's photo
leaveFlag: Whether has left office
leaveDate: Date left office if applicable
leaveReason: Reason for leaving if applicable
bioId: Biography ID

Examples

## Not run: 
# Get legislator detail
detail <- get_ly_legislator_detail(
  term = 9,
  name = "王金平"
)

# Print basic info
cat(sprintf(
  "Name: %s (%s)\nParty: %s\nArea: %s\n",
  detail$name,
  detail$ename,
  detail$party,
  detail$areaName
))

## End(Not run)

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