add_rfrnds: Add new referendums to the RDB

In zdaarau/c2d: Download Data from the Referendum Database (RDB), Which Covers Direct Democratic Votes Worldwide

Add new referendums to the RDB

Description

Adds new referendum entries to the Referendum Database (RDB) via its API.

Usage

add_rfrnds(
  data,
  email = pal::pkg_config_val(key = "api_username", pkg = this_pkg),
  password = pal::pkg_config_val(key = "api_password", pkg = this_pkg),
  use_testing_server = pal::pkg_config_val(key = "use_testing_server", pkg = this_pkg),
  quiet = FALSE
)

Arguments

data	The new referendum data. A tibble that in any case must contain the columns country_code level date title_en result electorate_total electorate_abroad votes_yes votes_no votes_empty votes_invalid is_draft type plus the column subnational_entity_name for referendums of level below "national", and the column municipality for referendums of level = "local", plus any additional valid columns containing the values for the corresponding database fields.
email	The e-mail address of the RDB API user account to be used for authentication. A character scalar.
password	The password of the RDB API user account to be used for authentication. A character scalar.
use_testing_server	Whether or not to use the testing servers instead of the production servers for RDB Services API calls etc.
quiet	Whether or not to print the newly created referendum IDs to console.

Details

Note that adding/editing the column files is not supported, i.e. it is simply dropped from data.

Value

A character vector of newly created referendum IDs.

See Also

Other referendum data functions: assert_vars(), count_rfrnds(), delete_rfrnds(), download_file_attachment(), edit_rfrnds(), rfrnd(), rfrnd_exists(), rfrnds(), rfrnds_bkp(), validate_rfrnds()

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