hansard (version 0.4.6)

commons_oral_questions: Imports data on House of Commons oral questions

Description

Imports data on House of Commons oral questions

Usage

commons_oral_questions(mp_id = NULL, answering_department = NULL,
  start_date = "1900-01-01", end_date = Sys.Date(), extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE, tidy_style = "snake_case")

Arguments

mp_id

The ID of a given MP. Defaults to NULL.

answering_department

The department that answers a question

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 oral questions in the House of Commons.

See Also

all_answered_questions commons_answered_questions commons_oral_question_times commons_written_questions lords_written_questions mp_questions

Examples

# NOT RUN {
x <- commons_oral_questions(mp_id=4019, answering_department = 'education')

# }