Search for an MP or Peer by name and constituency

Function searches for the string and returns a tibble with all matches from both houses of parliament. Returns all partial matches in the members' names, constituencies, twitter handle and webpage. The default search is NULL, which returns a tibble of all members of both houses, the same result as members().

members_search(search = NULL, tidy = TRUE, tidy_style = "snake_case",
  verbose = TRUE)

hansard_members_search(search = NULL, tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake_case", verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

search	Accepts any lucene query string, using * as a multiple character wildcard, and ? as the single character wildcard. Searchs are not case sensitive. If NULL, returns a tibble with all members of both houses of parliament. 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 one of 'snake_case', 'camelCase' and 'period.case'. Defaults to 'snake_case'.
verbose	If TRUE, displayes messages on the console on the progress of the API request. Defaults to TRUE.

Value

A tibble with the results of the search.

See also

members

Examples

# NOT RUN {
x <- members_search('*chris*')

x <- members_search(search='*chris*')
# }