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mnis (version 0.2.7)

Easy Downloading Capabilities for the Members' Name Information Service

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An API package for the Members' Name Information Service operated by the UK parliament. Documentation for the API itself can be found here: .

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install.packages('mnis')

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0.2.7

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MIT + file LICENSE

Maintainer

Evan Odell evanodell91@gmail.com

Last Published

July 3rd, 2017

Functions in mnis (0.2.7)

A generic function for the MNIS API lookup. The function requests data in JSON format, but the type of object, and all URLs, paths and parameters are user-defined. mnis_base does not include the option to tidy variable names and data types, but the mnis_tidy function can be called on the data returned from the API.

Strip out BOM from JSON data

constituency_results_tidy

constituency_results_tidy

A function that makes date variables returned from the API datable, ie by converting them to POSIXct. Does the same thing for datetimes.

Returns all members who are able to sit in either house, or who are currently ineligible to sit. Members ineligible to sit include but are not necessarily limited to former MPs, members of the judiciary, who are recused from House of Lords duties.

A wrapper for mnis_additional functions.

mnis_joined_between

Function returns all members who took their seats in the house between two given dates.

mnis_lords_type

Calls the API to return a tibble with details on the number of Lords and their affiliations.

A function to strip Byte Order Marks (BOM) out of JSON data returned from the API.

mnis: Easy Downloading Capabilities for the Member Name Information Service

mnis_additional

A series of basic function for the API lookup. Each function accepts a member's ID and returns information; if no ID is given basic information on all members of both houses is returned.

mnis_member_date

Returns a tibble with a member's status on a given date.

mnis_mps_on_date

A tibble with information on all MPs who were members of the House of Commons on the date specificed (if only date1 is included as a parameter), or on or between the two dates if both date1 and date2 are specified.

mnis_all_members

Returns a tibble with information on al members of both houses or a given house.

mnis_all_reference

Returns a list of 39 tibbles, with the name and data returned from each respective reference function.

Requests all available biographical information for a given member, and returns it in the form of a tibble.

mnis_general_election_results

Returns an object containing list with details of the search parameter and a tibble with election results. Accepts queries on location type and name, and the start and end date to return general elections between. The API does not contain data for Norther Ireland.

A series of 39 functions that return tibbles of reference data. This data is useful for providing parameters for other function calls. The functions do not accept any arguments aside from the 'tidy' argument, which defaults to TRUE.

Functions to tidy up the variable names returned from the API, and turn dates and datetimes to POSIXct.

mnis_constituency_results

Returns a single object containing a list with details of the constituency and a tibble with election results. For constituency IDs, see ref_constituencies.

mnis_department

Request data on the holders of cabinet/shadow cabinet positions. Request specific departments by department ID (see mnis_reference for the ref_department function to retrieve departmental IDs).

mnis_party_state

A tibble with information on the numbers and gender of MPs, by party, for the given date.

mnis_peers_on_date

A tibble with information on all peers who were members of the House of Commons on the date specificed (if only date1 is included as a parameter), or on or between the two dates if both date1 and date2 are specified.