Parliamentary Session data — sessions

Imports data on Parliamentary Sessions. Note that due to the date format used by the API, if days==TRUE and the end_date and start_date parameters are not set to the default values, the function downloads all available data and then subsets the tibble between the two given dates.

Usage

sessions_info(
  days = FALSE,
  start_date = "1900-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(),
  extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE
)

hansard_sessions_info(
  days = FALSE,
  start_date = "1900-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(),
  extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

days: If TRUE, returns data for all available days. If FALSE, returns data on each parliamentary session. If TRUE and non-default start_date and/or end_date parameters are requested, the function must retrieve all days and subset based on the values passed to start_date and end_date. Not applicable to lords_sessions. Defaults to FALSE.
start_date: Only includes sessions starting 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 sessions ending 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 on parliamentary sessions.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
x <- sessions_info(days = TRUE)

y <- sessions_info(days = FALSE)
} # }