| get_history {legislatoR} | R Documentation |
Fetch Wikipedia 'History' table
Description
Fetches full revision histories of legislators' Wikipedia biographies for the specified legislature. Requires a working Internet connection.
Usage
get_history(legislature)
Arguments
legislature |
A character string specifying the three-letter country code of the legislature for which data shall be fetched. Currently one of ‘aut’, ‘can’, ‘cze’, ‘esp’, ‘fra’, ‘deu’, ‘irl’, ‘sco’, ‘gbr’, ‘usa_house’, or ‘usa_senate’. |
Format
Data frame with columns:
pageid: Wikipedia page ID identifying a legislator's Wikipedia biography (of class ‘integer’).
revid: Wikipedia edit ID (of class ‘integer’).
parentid: Wikipedia edit ID of the previous revision (of class ‘integer’).
user: Username of registered user responsible for the revision, IP address in case of anonymous revision (of class ‘character’).
userid: ID of registered user responsible for the revision, 0 in case of anonymous revision (of class ‘integer’).
timestamp: Date and time of the revision (of class ‘POSIXct’).
size: Revision size in bytes (of class ‘integer’).
comment: Revision comment (of class ‘character’).
Value
A data frame with columns as specified above.
Source
Wikipedia API, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
Examples
# Get entire 'History' table for the Austrian Nationalrat
aut_history <- get_history(legislature = "aut")
tibble::glimpse(aut_history)
# Get 'History' table for NEOS party members of the Austrian Nationalrat
aut_history_subset <- dplyr::semi_join(x = aut_history,
y = dplyr::filter(get_political(legislature = "aut"),
party == "NEOS"),
by = "pageid")
tibble::glimpse(aut_history_subset)