Members who joined between two dates. — mnis_joined

Function returns all members who took their seats in the house between two given dates.

mnis_joined_between(
  start_date = "1900-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(),
  house = "all",
  party = NULL,
  eligible = "all",
  tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake_case"
)

Arguments

start_date: The start date of the search, Accepts character values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format, and objects of class Date, POSIXt, POSIXct, POSIXlt or anything else than can be coerced to a date with as.Date(). Defaults to '1900-01-01'.
end_date: The end date of the search. Accepts character values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format, and objects of class Date, POSIXt, POSIXct, POSIXlt or anything else than can be coerced to a date with as.Date(). Defaults to the current system date.
house: The house to which the member belongs. Accepts one of 'all', 'lords' and 'commons'. This parameter is not case sensitive. Defaults to 'all'.
party: All members from a given party who joined between the two dates. The party name must be fully spelled out (e.g. 'green party'), the API does not accept searches on this parameter. For a tibble of parties, see ref_parties(). This parameter is not case sensitive. Defaults to NULL.
eligible: If the member is currently eligible to sit. Accepts one of 'all', 'current', 'former'. This parameter is not case sensitive. Defaults to 'all'.
tidy: If TRUE, fixes the variable names in the tibble to remove non-alphanumeric characters and superfluous text, and convert to a consistent style. Defaults to TRUE.
tidy_style: The style to convert variable names to, if tidy=TRUE. Accepts one of "snake_case", "camelCase" and "period.case". Defaults to "snake_case".

Value

A tibble with data on all members who joined between the two given dates.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
x <- mnis_joined_between(
  start_date = "2015-01-01",
  end_date = "2017-01-01", party = "labour"
)
}