hansard (version 0.5.0)

mp_questions: Accepts an ID number for a member of the House of Commons, and returns a tibble of of all their oral and written questions.

Description

Accepts an ID number for a member of the House of Commons, and returns a tibble of of all their oral and written questions.

Usage

mp_questions(mp_id = NULL, question_type = "all",
  start_date = "1900-01-01", end_date = Sys.Date(), extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE, tidy_style = "snake_case")
hansard_mp_questions(mp_id = NULL, question_type = "all",
  start_date = "1900-01-01", end_date = Sys.Date(), extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE, tidy_style = "snake_case")

Arguments

mp_id

The ID number of a member of the House of Commons. Defaults to NULL.

question_type

Accepts the arguments 'all', 'oral' and 'written'. Defaults to 'all'.

start_date

The earliest date to include in the tibble. Defaults to '1900-01-01'. Accepts character values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format, and objects of class Date, POSIXt, POSIXct, POSIXlt or anything else than can be coerced to a date with as.Date().

end_date

The latest date to include in the tibble. Defaults to current system date. Defaults to '1900-01-01'. Accepts character values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format, and objects of class Date, POSIXt, POSIXct, POSIXlt or anything else than can be coerced to a date with as.Date().

extra_args

Additional parameters to pass to API. Defaults to NULL.

tidy

Fix the variable names in the tibble to remove special characters and superfluous text, and converts the variable names to a consistent style. Defaults to TRUE.

tidy_style

The style to convert variable names to, if tidy = TRUE. Accepts one of 'snake_case', 'camelCase' and 'period.case'. Defaults to 'snake_case'.

Value

A tibble with details on all questions asked by a member of the House of Commons.

See Also

all_answered_questions

commons_answered_questions

commons_oral_questions

commons_oral_question_times

commons_written_questions

lords_written_questions

Examples

# NOT RUN {
x <- mp_questions(172, 'all')
# }
# NOT RUN {
# }