wethepeople: A package for working with the We The People data.

In yoni/r_we_the_people: An R client for interacting with the White House's "We The People" petition API.

Description

wethepeople is an R package for working with the White House's We The People petition data.

Author(s)

Yoni Ben-Meshulam [e-mail]

Examples

# Load a sample set of petitions and generate some plots:
data(petitions)
some_petitions <- head(petitions, n=5)
plot_issues_over_time(some_petitions)
plot_issues_pending_response(petitions)
plot_wordcloud(some_petitions, 'title')

# Create an API Client:
client <- WeThePeopleAPIClient()
# Load petitions from the live API:
petitions <- client$petitions(limit=2)
# Maye some eye candy:
plot_issues_over_time(petitions)
plot_wordcloud(some_petitions, 'title')

yoni/r_we_the_people documentation built on May 4, 2019, 5:31 p.m.