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legiscanr is an R package designed to simplify the process of accessing and interacting with the LegiScan API, enabling users to easily retrieve legislative data. This package leverages the tidyverse conventions and aims to provide a user-friendly interface for querying legislative information, including bill status, legislative sessions, and more.
- Easy Authentication: Set your LegiScan API key once, and legiscanr handles the rest.
- Tidy Results: Every query returns a tibble, making it easy to integrate with the tidyverse suite of packages.
- Comprehensive Coverage: Access data on bills, votes, legislators, and more, across all states and at the federal level.
You can install the latest version of legiscanr from GitHub. Ensure that you have the pak package installed, then install legiscanr:
pak::pak("brancengregory/legiscanr")Before using legiscanr, you need to obtain an API key from LegiScan. Set this key in your R environment to ensure seamless integration.
Sys.setenv(LEGISCAN_API_KEY = "your_api_key_here")The following example demonstrates how to retrieve a list of legislative sessions for a given state:
library(legiscanr)
sessions <- get_session_list(state = "OK")This function call returns a tibble containing information on legislative sessions in Oklahoma. Each function within legiscanr is designed to return data in a tidy format, adhering to the principles of the tidyverse.