Commons oral question times

Imports data on House of Commons oral question times. Query with parameters for the parliamentary session or the question ID. If tidy=TRUE, datetime variables are converted to POSIXct class.

Usage

commons_oral_question_times(
  session = NULL,
  question_id = NULL,
  extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE
)

hansard_commons_oral_question_times(
  session = NULL,
  question_id = NULL,
  extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

session

Accepts a session in format yyyy/yy (e.g. "2016/17") and returns a tibble of all oral question times from that session. Defaults to NULL.

question_id

Accepts a question time ID, and returns a tibble of that question time.

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 information on oral question times in the House of Commons.

See also

all_answered_questions()

commons_answered_questions()

commons_oral_questions()

commons_written_questions()

lords_written_questions()

mp_questions()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
x <- commons_oral_question_times(session = "2016/17", question_id = "685697")
} # }