hansard: Accessing Westminster Parliament Data

An R package to automatically fetch data from the UK Parliament API. Ironically, Hansard data is not yet accessible through the API. To explore all available data see http://www.data.parliament.uk/. Help on the API itself is here: http://api.data.parliament.uk/help/.

Like the UK parliament API, this package is a work in progress. Additional functionalities will be added to the package as they are developed in the API.

To install from CRAN (version 0.3.4) run:

install.packages("hansard")

To install the development version run:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("EvanOdell/hansard")

Using hansard

For an introduction to hansard, the vignette vignette("introduction", package = "hansard") is the best place to start. If you are unfamiliar with APIs https://zapier.com/learn/apis/ is a helpful introduction.

API calls with console input

Previous versions (<=0.3.4) of hansard included options for console-based inputs to call data and interact with the API. This feature has been removed from subsequent versions, and is available in the https://github.com/EvanOdell/hansard-console. There are no plans to submit this to CRAN, and it is not being actively maintained.