Parliamentary Thesaurus

Imports the parliamentary thesaurus. The API is rate limited to 5500 requests at a time, so some use of parameters is required.

commons_terms(search = NULL, class = NULL, extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE, tidy_style = "snake", verbose = TRUE)

hansard_commons_terms(search = NULL, class = NULL, extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE, tidy_style = "snake", verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

search	A string to search the parliamentary thesaurus for.
class	The class of definition to be returned Accepts one of 'ID', 'ORG', 'SIT', 'NAME', 'LEG', 'CTP', 'PBT' and 'TPG'. Defaults to NULL.
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 results from the parliamentary thesaurus.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
x <- commons_terms(search = "estate")

x <- commons_terms(search = "estate", class = "ORG")
# }