Retrieve information on all MPs who were members of the House of Commons on a date or between two dates.
mps_on_date(
date1 = Sys.Date(),
date2 = NULL,
constituency = FALSE,
tidy = TRUE,
tidy_style = "snake_case"
)The date to return the list of MPs from. 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 current system date.
An optional query parameter. 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(). If a proper date, the function
returns a list of all MPs who were members between date2 and
date1. Defaults to NULL.
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.
The style to convert variable names to,
if tidy = TRUE. Accepts one of 'snake_case',
'camelCase' and 'period.case'. Defaults to 'snake_case'.
A tibble with information on all MPs who were members of the House
of Commons on the date specificed (if only date1 is included as a
parameter), or on or between the two dates if both date1 and
date2 are specified.
Returns information on all MPs who were members of the House of Commons on the date specificed (if only one date is included as a parameter), or on or between the two dates if both are specified.
This function is identical to the mnis_mps_on_date function from
the [mnis](https://cran.r-project.org/package=mnis) package.
if (FALSE) {
x <- mps_on_date(date1 = "2017-04-19", date2 = "2010-05-04")
}