hansard (version 0.5.0)

publication_logs: Imports data on House of Commons and House of Lords publications.

Description

Imports data on House of Commons and House of Lords publications.

Usage

publication_logs(ID = NULL, house = NULL, start_date = "1900-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(), extra_args = NULL, tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake_case")
hansard_publication_logs(ID = NULL, house = NULL,
  start_date = "1900-01-01", end_date = Sys.Date(), extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE, tidy_style = "snake_case")

Arguments

ID

Publication ID. Defaults to NULL. If not NULL, requests a tibble with information on the given publication.

house

The house that produced the particular publication. Accepts 'commons' and 'lords'. If NULL or not 'commons' or 'lords', returns publications from both House of Commons and House of Lords. This parameter is case-insensitive. 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'.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
x <- publication_logs(house='commons')

x <- publication_logs(683267)
# }