hansard (version 0.5.0)

lord_vote_record: Accepts an ID number for a member of the House of Commons, and returns a tibble of their votes.

Description

Accepts an ID number for a member of the House of Commons, and returns a tibble of their votes.

Usage

lord_vote_record(peer_id = NULL, lobby = "all", start_date = "1900-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(), extra_args = NULL, tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake_case")
hansard_lord_vote_record(peer_id = NULL, lobby = "all",
  start_date = "1900-01-01", end_date = Sys.Date(), extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE, tidy_style = "snake_case")

Arguments

peer_id

The ID number of a member of the House of Lords. A value must be included for this parameter. Use the lords_members to find IDs for members of the House of Lords. Defaults to NULL.

lobby

Accepts one of 'all', 'content', 'notcontent'. 'content' returns votes where the peer voted 'content', 'notcontent' returns votes where the peer voted 'not content' and 'all' returns all available votes by the peer. 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 the voting record of a member of the House of Lords

Examples

# NOT RUN {
x <- lord_vote_record(530, lobby='all')

x <- lord_vote_record(530, lobby='content')

x <- lord_vote_record(530, lobby='notcontent')
# }