get_voteview_rollcall_votes {filibustr}R Documentation

Get data on congressional roll call votes from Voteview

Description

get_voteview_rollcall_votes() returns a tibble with information on recorded (roll call) votes in the House and Senate.

Usage

get_voteview_rollcall_votes(
  chamber = "all",
  congress = NULL,
  local = TRUE,
  local_dir = "."
)

Arguments

chamber

Which chamber to get data for. Options are:

  • "all", "congress": Both House and Senate data (the default).

  • "house", "h", "hr": House data only.

  • "senate", "s", "sen": Senate data only. These options are case-insensitive. If you explicitly pass a different value, it will default to "all" with a warning.

congress

A whole number (to get data for a single Congress), or a numeric vector (to get data for a set of congresses). Optional; will retrieve data for all Congresses by default. If specified, Congress numbers cannot be greater than the current_congress() (i.e., you cannot try to get future data).

local

[Experimental] Whether to read the data from a local file, as opposed to the Voteview website. Default is TRUE. If the local file does not exist, will fall back to reading from online.

local_dir

[Experimental] The directory containing the local file. Defaults to the working directory.

Details

See the Voteview website for more information on their data.

Please cite this dataset as:

Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2023). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/

Value

A tibble().

Examples


get_voteview_rollcall_votes()

# Force to get data from Voteview website
get_voteview_rollcall_votes(local = FALSE)

# Get data for only one chamber
# NOTE: the President is included in all data
get_voteview_rollcall_votes(chamber = "house")
get_voteview_rollcall_votes(chamber = "senate")

# Get data for a specific Congress
get_voteview_rollcall_votes(congress = 100)
get_voteview_rollcall_votes(congress = current_congress())


# Get data for a set of Congresses
get_voteview_rollcall_votes(congress = 1:10)


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