Fixed issue with lazy data for CRAN.
Instead of returning some weirdly formatted tibbles, many functions now return lists.
mnis_extra is now defunct due to change towards using
lists
mnis_additional and mnis_reference
functions are now deprecated. The function had no use in querying data
from the API, merely printing a list of functions in a particular
category.
Introduction of new mnis_political_interests()
function.
mnis_member_date() and mnis_full_biog() now
accept vectors of member IDs.
Changing approach of mnis_full_biog() to fix issue where
some tibbles lacked column names.
Improvements to documentation examples and layout.
mnis_tidy() and related functions are no longer
exported.
Fixed test error for mnis_eligible(), as the data
returned by this function is too dynamic for some of the previously used
tests to be effective.
Case sensitivity has been removed from all parameters that were previously case sensitive.
Variable styles now apply to dataframe names in
mnis_all_reference(), and the function has been sped up
slightly.
Calls to the API using httr and jsonlite
have been moved to generic or class-specific helper functions to reduce
the total amount of code, make multi-function files easier to navigate
and make any changes to the API easier to adjust to.
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Fixed bug in mnis_tidy() that didn’t correct data schema
names.
Fixed test errors for mnis_joined_between().
Removed basic_details parameter from
mnis_extra(), as it didn’t provide any information that
wasn’t included by other parameters.
Changed mnis_extra() code to eliminate duplicate
columns.
Now accepts dates as character values in “YYYY-MM-DD” format, and
objects of class Date, POSIXt, POSIXct, POSIXlt or anything else than
can be coerced to a date with as.Date().
Fixed bugs on mnis_joined_between to return full, proper
tibble.
Dropped parameter ‘joined_since’ from mnis_all_members,
in favour of mnis_joined_between.
Tidied up code in mnis_reference functions.
Fixed bug in mnis_party_state which produced an error if
not using the current system date.
Added optional ‘tidy_style’ parameter, allowing users to decide which
style "snake_case", "camelCase" and
"period.case" they want variable names to be in, if
‘tidy’==TRUE.
mnis_mps_on_date and mnis_peers_on_date
functions introduced, which return all members of the House of Commons
or the House of Lords eligible to sit on a given date.
Bug fixes for constituency names in mnis_eligible
mnis now uses tibbles instead of data frames as the data
class returned from API calls.
Bug fixes for constituency names in mnis_eligible
All functions now remove byte order marks from the API response.
All empty mnis_additional functions now default to
returning mnis_all_members instead of an error.
The mnis_all_members without any parameters now returns
an error message that tells the user to include data for the ID
parameter, rather than a generic API error.
Expansion of tidy function to all other package
functions and improved speed and quality.
Fixed errors in mnis_extra that prevented it from
functioning properly.
Improved handling of deprecated functions.
New mnis_all_members function that returns all members
from both houses, with various options accepted as function
parameters.
The old function names were awkward. The new ones are all lower case and use underscores to separate individual words. All old function names have been deprecated, but can still be called.
mnis_eligible returns a data frame with information on
all members eligible or previously eligible to sit in the House of
Lords, the House of Commons, or both.
The Members’ Names Information Service returns variables names with
extra text, including periods, @ signs and superfluous text stuck on the
end of names. The tidy parameter gives an option to remove
this extra text.
mnis_JoinedBetween returns a data frame with information
on all members who joined the House of Lords, the House of Commons, or
both, between two given dates.
As the Members’ Names Information Service has dozens of different search parameters and hundreds of possible combinations of searches, it is not reasonable to build functions for every possible query to the API. However, I will be rolling out functions for potentially common queries as and when I can. If you have any particular queries you would like functions for please let me know and I’ll create it.
This is the first release of the mnis package, which
provides functions to download data from the Members’ Names Information
Service for the UK Houses of Parliament.
See the package documentation for details on each function and the type of data available.