Lords sessions

Returns the session code and other basic details for individual House of Lords sittings. Note that this API does not appear to have been updated with data after 2017-01-31.

lords_sessions(
  start_date = "1900-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(),
  tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE
)

hansard_lords_sessions(
  start_date = "1900-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(),
  tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

start_date

Only includes sessions starting 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 sessions ending 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.

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.

See also

lords_attendance_session()

sessions_info()

Examples

if (FALSE) {

a <- lords_sessions(start_date = "2017-01-01", end_date = "2017-01-31")
}