get_topics {stortingscrape}

Get list of topics and sub-topics for the Norwegian parliament

Description

A function for retrieving topic keys used to label various data from the Norwegian parliament.

Usage

get_topics(keep_sub_topics = TRUE)

Arguments

keep_sub_topics

Logical. Whether to keep sub-topics (default) for all main topics or not.

Value

A list with two elements:

1. $topics (All topics)

   response_date	Date of data retrieval
   version	Data version from the API
   is_main_topic	Logical indicator for whether the topic is a main topic
   main_topic_id	Id of main topic
   id	Id of topic
   name	Name of topic

2. $main_topics (exclusively main topics, if keep_sub_topics = TRUE)

   response_date	Date of data retrieval
   version	Data version from the API
   is_main_topic	Logical indicator for whether the topic is a main topic
   main_topic_id	Id of main topic
   id	Id of topic
   name	Name of topic

Examples

# Request the data
tops <- get_topics()

# Look at the first main topic
tops$main_topics[1, ]

# Extract all sub-topics for the first main topic
tops$topics[which(tops$topics$main_topic_id == 5), ]