hansard (version 0.5.0)

mp_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

mp_vote_record(mp_id = NULL, lobby = "all", session = NULL,
  start_date = "1900-01-01", end_date = Sys.Date(), extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE, tidy_style = "snake_case")
hansard_mp_vote_record(mp_id = NULL, lobby = "all", session = NULL,
  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.

lobby

Accepts one of 'all', 'aye' or 'no'. 'aye' returns votes where the MP voted 'aye', 'no' returns votes where the MP voted 'no', 'all' returns all available votes by the MP. Defaults to 'all'.

session

The parliamentary session to return votes from, in 'YYYY/YY' format. Defaults to NULL.

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 the given MP.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
x <- mp_vote_record(172, lobby='all')

x <- mp_vote_record(172, lobby='aye')

x <- mp_vote_record(172, lobby='no')

x <- mp_vote_record(172, session = '2016/17')

# }