pvsR (version 0.1.1)

Rating.getCategories: Get categories that contain released ratings according to state

Description

This function is a wrapper for the Rating.getCategories() method of the PVS API Rating class which dumps categories that contain released ratings according to state. The function sends a request with this method to the PVS API for all state IDs given as a function input, extracts the XML values from the returned XML file(s) and returns them arranged in one data frame.

Usage

Rating.getCategories(stateId="NA")

Arguments

stateId

(optional) a character string or list of character strings with the stateId(s) (default: NA) (see references for details)

Value

• A data frame with a row for each rating and columns with variables describing the rating. The returned data frame contains a row for each rating and columns with the following variables describing the rating: categories.category*.categoryId, categories.category*.name.

References

http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Rating.html Use State.getStateIDs() to get a list of state IDs.

Examples

# First, make sure your personal PVS API key is saved as character string in the pvs.key variable:
pvs.key <- "yourkey"
# get rating categories
rating <- Rating.getCategories()
rating