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)
}