House publications

Imports data on House of Commons and House of Lords publications.

publication_logs(
  ID = NULL,
  house = NULL,
  start_date = "1900-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(),
  extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE
)

hansard_publication_logs(
  ID = NULL,
  house = NULL,
  start_date = "1900-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(),
  extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

ID

Publication ID. Defaults to NULL. If not NULL, requests a tibble with information on the given publication.

house

The house that produced the particular publication. Accepts 'commons' and 'lords'. If NULL or not 'commons' or 'lords', returns publications from both House of Commons and House of Lords. This parameter is case-insensitive. Defaults to NULL.

start_date

Only includes publications issued 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 publications issued 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 from publications in the House of Commons and House of Lords

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# All publications in the house of commons
x <- publication_logs(house = "commons")

# Returns a given publication
y <- publication_logs(683267)
}