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Now using
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New
edm_text()function to return the content of Early Day Motions.
- 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.
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.
- Updates to vignette to prevent calls to API in demos.
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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.
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Fixed vignette to reduce calls to API when building, to eliminate CRAN errors and prevent hammering the API.
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Fixed a couple typos in custom tidying functions.
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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.
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Fixed an bug where the the
early_day_motions()function mishandled list columns.
- Removed need for
stringiandhttrpackages, and dropped somedplyrdependencies
hansard_genericfunction is now defunct.
- If
tidy=TRUE, URLs are consistently removed fromaboutcolumns in all functions.
- Improvements to some example descriptions
members_search()now allows custom lucene queries, with or without wildcards.
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Changed default value of
verboseparameter toTRUE. -
Adapted
members()to fit follow changes in API structure.
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Remove URL from
aboutcolumn fromall_answered_questionsiftidy=TRUE. -
Fixed error in
members_search()that produced a 404 error if left empty.
- Expanded test coverage
- Fixed bugs where capitalised conjunctions in department names were causing queries to fail.
bill_publications()function introduced, to retrieve data on publications associated with different bills.
- 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.
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Internal rewrites to make maintenance easier and produce a few very small increases in speed in several functions.
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Fixed some typos in documentation, brought documentation into line with the recommended 80 character maximum width for each line.
- Fixed bug on
constituencies()so that theNULLdefault value of parametercurrentworks properly.
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.
commons_oral_question_times() now only returns one question ID.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fixed bug that prevented lords_written_questions() from retrieving
more than 500 results at a time.
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
Fixed mp_edms() to return more useful error if the requested MP does
not have any Early Day Motions that meet the search parameters.
The signatory parameter in mp_edms() is now behaving properly.
General improvement to documentation
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.
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.
Party name columns in election_candidates() and
election_results(all_data=TRUE) are now in alphabetical order.
Fixed bug in all_answered_questions() that wasn't returning results
when tabling_mp_id is a parameter.
lords_interests() and bill_stage_types() seperated from members
and bills, respectively, into their own distinct functions.
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.
Additional URL stripping from variable values if tidy=TRUE.
Added tabling_mp_id parameter to all_answered_questions().
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.
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.
Updated elections() to work with new API syntax.
hansard() functions with start_date and end_date parameters now
accept any input that can be coerced to a date with the as.Date() function.
Added a type parameter to elections(), to return all elections of a
particular type.
Added optional constit_details parameter to election_result() function.
If TRUE, constit_details retrieves additional constituency details from
constituencies(), most notably including GSS code.
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.
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() now uses tibbles instead of data frames as the data class returned
from API calls.
Fixes discrepency between output displayed and vignette and actual package output (#7, @pssguy).
tidy parameter in members_search() now does some additional tidying up.
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.
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.
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()
mp_questions()
mp_vote_record()
mp_edms()
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.
This update fixes an issue with lords_written_questions() and
commons_written_questions() where the functions returned a 404
error on some requests.
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.