House of Commons constituencies — constituencies • hansard

Imports data on House of Commons constituencies, returning a tibble of all current and/or former Westminster constituencies, subject to parameters.

constituencies(
  current = NULL,
  extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE
)

hansard_constituencies(
  current = NULL,
  extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

current: If TRUE, returns only current constituencies. If FALSE, returns only former constituencies. If NULL, returns all current and former constituencies. Defaults to NULL.
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 of Westminster constituencies.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
x <- constituencies()

y <- constituencies(current = FALSE)
}