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ropensecretsapi (version 1.0.0)

R Package for the OpenSecrets.org API

Description

An R package for the OpenSecrets.org web services API.

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install.packages('ropensecretsapi')

Monthly Downloads

162

Version

1.0.0

License

LGPL-3

Maintainer

Thomas Fuller

Last Published

October 5th, 2014

Functions in ropensecretsapi (1.0.0)

GetCandContribData

Provides the top organizations contributing to specified politician.
GetCongCmteIndusData

Provides summary fundraising information for a specific committee, industry and congress number.
AddAPIKey

Function is used to add the API key to the params that will be sent on every call to OpenSecrets.org; an exception will be thrown if this value is null.
GetMemPFDprofileData

Returns PFD information for a member of Congress.
GetCandIndustryData

Provides the top industries contributing to a specified politician.
GetCandSummaryData

Provides summary fundraising information for a specified politician.
DoGet

Function performs the request for data from the OpenSecrets.org website and returns the result as a data frame.
AddMethod

Function is used to set the OpenSecrets.org API method being called.
GetCandIndByIndData

Provides total contributed to specified candidate from specified industry for specified cycle.
AddKeyValuePair

Function is used to add the key and value to the params that will be sent on every call to OpenSecrets.org; an exception will be thrown if either of these parameters is null.
SetAPIKey

Allows the user to set the OpenSecrets.org API key once thereby removing the need to pass it in for each function call in this package.
GetOrgSummaryData

Provides organization summary data.
GetLegislatorsData

Provides a list of legislators and associated attributes.
AddOutputAsJSON

Function is used to set the output parameter to JSON.
GetOrgsData

Provides organization data.
GetCandSectorData

Provides the top industries contributing to a specified politician.