hansard 0.8.0.9000
Now using
httrto handle API requests and return more helpful errors.New
edm_text()function to return the content of Early Day Motions.
hansard 0.8.0
CRAN release: 2019-11-13
- Replacing deprecated
tidyrfunctions with up-to-date ones (#14, thanks @counterpig). This may result in some slight differences in data structures, please check your code.
Changes
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election_candidates()returns a tibble, with different formats and names than previous versions that will be easier to work with. Please check your code as the structure may have changed in a way that breaks existing code.
hansard 0.7.0
CRAN release: 2019-05-21
Changes
Now using the
snakecasepackage to tidy tibble names. This has resulted in minor changes to style options, please check thetidy_styleparameter values if there are errors.commons_divisions()now acceptsdivision_idordivision_uin(#13). Thanks to @basilesimon for getting the ball rolling with this parameter.
hansard 0.6.3
CRAN release: 2019-01-10
Bug Fixes
The max number of items per page has changed at some point. Please check your code to ensure that functions return the data you expect. If it is returning tibbles with multiples of 100 rows it is likely that your data is incomplete.
Fixed an bug where the the
early_day_motions()function mishandled list columns.
hansard 0.6.1
Code changes
-
members_search()now allows custom lucene queries, with or without wildcards.
hansard 0.6.0
CRAN release: 2018-03-02
Code changes
Changed default value of
verboseparameter toTRUE.Adapted
members()to fit follow changes in API structure.
Bug fixes
Remove URL from
aboutcolumn fromall_answered_questionsiftidy=TRUE.Fixed error in
members_search()that produced a 404 error if left empty.
hansard 0.5.8
New Functions
-
bill_publications()function introduced, to retrieve data on publications associated with different bills.
Performance improvements
- Transitioned from if and else statements to
dplyr’scase_when()andif_else()functions for internal use. Also replacinggsub()with
fasterstringifunctions in some cases. These changes are intended to
increase speed and improve ease of maintenance.
hansard 0.5.7
Internal rewrites to make maintenance easier and produce a few very small increases in speed in several functions.
Fixed some typos in documentation, brought documentation into line with the recommended 80 character maximum width for each line.
hansard 0.5.6
- Fixed bug on
constituencies()so that theNULLdefault value of parametercurrentworks properly.
hansard 0.5.5
CRAN release: 2017-10-09
Function changes
lords_attendance() has been deprecated. Please use lords_attendance_date() for attendance data for a given date, and lords_attendance_session() for attendance from a given session ID. (#4, @pssguy)
New function lords_sessions() returns a tibble with details of all sessions in the House of Lords between two given dates.
Bug Fixes
commons_oral_question_times() now only returns one question ID.
General improvements
Tidying with commons_divisions() now separates vote number from division ID, and the function no longer returns two rows to summarise a division when only one is needed.
Changes to syntax for constituencies(). The current parameter can now distinguish between current constituencies (TRUE), former (FALSE) and all constituencies (NULL).
Simplification of some internal code, which may have a marginal effect on speed, and will make maintenance and adding features easier going forward.
Switch from using stringr to stringi for internal string processing.
sessions_info() is now faster.
hansard 0.5.4
General improvements
Speeding up of some tests.
Better tidying on lords_interests().
Changes to structure of lord_vote_record() to make it slightly faster and more consistent with other functions.
hansard 0.5.3
New features
all_answered_questions(), commons_answered_questions(), commons_oral_questions(), commons_written_questions(), lords_written_questions() now accept arrays of member IDs and department names.
Added verbose parameter to all functions. If verbose=TRUE, messages displaying the progress of the API call are sent to the console.
General improvements
Sped up edm details retrieval in mp_edms() where full_data==TRUE and there are multiple MP IDs.
Major increase in speed for constituencies(current=TRUE).
Small increase in speed for all functions.
all_answered_questions() can now handle departmental ID numbers passed as characters.
Now uses the stringr package to remove case sensitivity from queries.
Bug Fixes
Fixed bug that prevented lords_written_questions() from retrieving more than 500 results at a time.
hansard 0.5.2
CRAN release: 2017-08-13
New features
mp_edms() now accepts lists and character vectors of MP IDs, and returns them all in one tibble.
mp_edms() now includes start_date and end_date parameters
hansard 0.5.0
CRAN release: 2017-07-10
New features
All functions have a wrapper function with the same name, but with hansard_ prefixed. Existing names have remained untouched.
Addition of house and answering_body parameters to all_answered_questions() function.
Bug Fixes
Fixed bug in lord_vote_record() which produced an error if requesting both lobbies, but a peer had only voted in one of the lobbies.
hansard 0.4.9
New features
Party name columns in election_candidates() and election_results(all_data=TRUE) are now in alphabetical order.
Bug Fixes
Fixed bug in all_answered_questions() that wasn’t returning results when tabling_mp_id is a parameter.
Documentation changes
lords_interests() and bill_stage_types() seperated from members and bills, respectively, into their own distinct functions.
hansard 0.4.8
New features
New all_data parameter in election_results() to return the number of votes cast for each party in each constituency.
New election_candidates() function, which returns the name of all candidates standing in an election.
New epetition_tibble() function, which returns a tibble with all epetitions submitted to parliament, subject to parameters. This function offers more flexibility for returning basic details about a group of epetitions than the existing epetition() function, which is designed to provide more detailed information on a single epetition.
hansard 0.4.7
New features
Additional URL stripping from variable values if tidy=TRUE.
Added tabling_mp_id parameter to all_answered_questions().
Bug Fixes
Fixed bug in members() where looking up a single member returned a tibble with two rows.
Fixed bug in mp_edms() where additional data was not being returned if full_data=TRUE.
Fixed bug in election_results() where it did not return data if constit_details=TRUE.
Fixed bugs where empty queries in election_results(), members() and possibly other functions were returning incorrect errors in some environments or circumstances.
hansard 0.4.6
CRAN release: 2017-06-05
New features
Added optional tidy_style parameter, allowing users to decide which style of “snake_case”, “camelCase” and “period.case” they want variable names to be in, if tidy=TRUE.
The elections() function now accepts start_date and end_date parameters. As the API called by the elections() function only accepts one additional argument not included in the package (the label of the election), changed the extra_args parameter to label to query that argument.
The tidy parameter now changes date values to POSIXct class with as.POSIXct() when the API returns date information, or to POSIXct with the parse_date_time from the lubridate package where the API returns both date and time information.
tidy parameter now strips out more unneeded character strings from API response.
Bug fixes
Updated elections() to work with new API syntax.
hansard 0.4.4
Election types
Added a type parameter to elections(), to return all elections of a particular type.
Constituency details
Added optional constit_details parameter to election_result() function. If TRUE, constit_details retrieves additional constituency details from constituencies(), most notably including GSS code.
Bug fixes
Fixed bug on commons_oral_question_times() where some calls did not return tibbles.
Fixed bug in lords_divisons() that did prevented vote summary queries from being returned.
Removed superfluous x from names in elections() when tidy=TRUE.
hansard 0.4.3
Voting margins
Added optional calculate_percent parameter to election_result() function. If TRUE, calculate_percent calculates the turnout percentage for each constituency in the tibble and the majority of the winning candidate to one decimal place, and includes this information in the tibble in columns labelled turnout_percentage and majority_percentage. Defaults to FALSE.
hansard 0.4.2
tibbling
hansard() now uses tibbles instead of data frames as the data class returned from API calls.
hansard 0.4.1
Fixes discrepency between output displayed and vignette and actual package output (#7, @pssguy).
tidy parameter in members_search() now does some additional tidying up.
hansard 0.4.0
CRAN release: 2017-03-24
Major re-write, breaks compatibility with previous versions, please check your code to ensure it still works with the new package, as console input functionality has been removed from all functions. These changes ensure greater consistency insyntax across the package, in both the body and formals of the functions.
If you need the old console based functions, they can be accessed through the hansardconsole package at https://github.com/EvanOdell/hansard-console.
Changes have been made to most functions, including:
all_answered_questions(): Console interface is gone, now operates as a function with the ID for a given MP accepted as the only function parameter. Returns all answered questions if blank.
bills(): Rewritten, now with the ability to look up bills by ID, as well as bill amendments. Added bill_stage_types() function.
commons_answered_questions(): Changed parameter name answeredBy to answered_by; improved ability to search by date, dropped console inputs.
commons_divisions(): Removed console inputs, simplified options.
commons_oral_question_times(): Simplified function, removed need for console input.
commons_oral_questions(): Simpler process, same result, more flexibility in requests
commons_answered_questions(): Removed need for console input.
commons_terms(): Simplified formals.
commons_written_questions(): Removed need for console input.
constituencies(): Simplified formals.
early_day_motions(): Changed all camelCase to snake_case.
election_results(): Removed console input, simplified formals.
elections(): Removed console input, simplified formals.
lords_attendance(): Removed console input, simplified formals.
lord_vote_record(): Removed console input, simplified formals.
lords_divisions(): Removed console input, simplified formals.
members(): Added additional commons_members(), commons_interests(), lords_members() and lords_interests() functions.
mp_edms(): Improved functionality, can now call full text of early day motions.
mp_questions(): Changed questionType to question_type
mp_vote_record(): Minor re-write
papers_laid(): Incorporates new features in the API
publication_logs(): Minor re-write, now includes start and end dates.
sessions_info(): Added start_date() and end_date() parameters
tv_channels() New function.
tv_clips(): New function, previously part of tv_programmes.
tv_programmes(): Minor re-write, now includes ability to select legislature.
Adding of research_briefings_lists() functions.
hansard 0.3.4
CRAN release: 2016-12-13
Bug fixes
The lords_attendance() function was not working. It was returning empty data frames when searching by date and failing entirely when trying to retrieve all attendance. This was due to url encoding issues, which have now been identified and fixed. (#4, @meenaparam)
Fixed spelling of amendments, so that lords_ammendments() is now lords_amendments(). The lords_ammendments() function has been deprecated, and will be removed in a future release.
hansard 0.3.0
Requesting data through function parameters
In response to a request, I’ve added three new functions that allow you to request the voting record of both MPs and members of the House of Lords by using their ID as a function parameter, rather than as a console input. They are:
lords_vote_record()
The option to use console input has been preserved in commons_divisions(), lords_divisions(), commons_written_questions() and commons_oral_questions(), along with other features not available in the new functions.
Bug fixes
This update fixes an issue with lords_written_questions() and commons_written_questions() where the functions returned a 404 error on some requests.
hansard 0.2.5
CRAN release: 2016-11-12
Introducing the hansard package
Provides functions to download data from the data.parliament.uk APIs.
Because of the structure of the data.parliament.uk API, there is a named function for each type of available data for ease of use. Functions for each new API will be added as and when they become available on data.parliament.uk. See the package documentation for details on each function and the type of data available.