House of Commons answered questions

Imports data on House of Commons answered questions. If all parameters are left empty, imports all available answered questions in a tibble.

If answering_department and/or answered_by are given a vector with multiple deparments/IDs, all possible combination of those criteria are returned.

commons_answered_questions(
  answering_department = NULL,
  answered_by = NULL,
  start_date = "1900-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(),
  extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE
)

hansard_commons_answered_questions(
  answering_department = NULL,
  answered_by = NULL,
  start_date = "1900-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(),
  extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

answering_department: Accepts the name of a department or a list of department names. Returns a tibble with all answered questions in the House of Commons from the given department. Defaults to NULL.
answered_by: Accepts the ID of an MP, or a list of IDs. Returns a tibble with all answered questions in the House of Commons by the given MP(s). Defaults to NULL.
start_date: Only includes questions answered introduced on or after this date. Accepts character values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format, and objects of class Date, POSIXt, POSIXct, POSIXlt or anything else that can be coerced to a date with as.Date(). Defaults to '1900-01-01'.
end_date: Only includes questions answered on or before this date. Accepts character values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format, and objects of class Date, POSIXt, POSIXct, POSIXlt or anything else that can be coerced to a date with as.Date(). Defaults to the current system date.
extra_args: Additional parameters and queries to pass to API. These queries must be strings and start with "&". See the API documentation or the package vignette for more details. Defaults to NULL.
tidy: Logical parameter. If TRUE, fixes 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 any style accepted by to_any_case. Defaults to 'snake'.
verbose: If TRUE, displayes messages on the console on the progress of the API request. Defaults to TRUE.

Value

A tibble with details on all answered questions in the House of Commons.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
x <- commons_answered_questions(
  answering_department = c("health", "education"),
  answered_by = c("4019", "1542", "111"),
  start_date = "2017-01-01"
)

y <- commons_answered_questions(
  start_date = "2017-03-26",
  end_date = "2017-04-01"
)
}

Arguments

Value

See also

Examples