The Records of Legislation and the Executives Proposals

Usage

get_bills_2(term = 8, session_period = NULL, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

term: A numeric or NULL value. Data is available from the 8th term onwards. Default is set to 8.
session_period: An integer, numeric, or NULL. Valid options for the session are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. Default is set to NULL. review_session_info() provides available session periods based on the Minguo (Taiwan) calendar.
verbose: Default value is TRUE. Displays details of the retrieved data, including the number, URL, and computing time.

Value

A list containing:

title

Records of questions answered by the executives

query_time

Query time

retrieved_number

Number of observations

retrieved_term

Retrieved term

url

Retrieved JSON URL

variable_names

Variables of the tibble dataframe

manual_info

Official manual: https://data.ly.gov.tw/getds.action?id=20 or use get_variable_info("get_bills_2")

data

A tibble dataframe with variables such as:

term: Legislative term number
sessionPeriod: Session period
sessionTimes: Session times
meetingTimes: Extraordinary session times
billNo: Bill number
billName: Bill title
billOrg: Proposing unit/legislator
billProposer: Primary proposer
billCosignatory: Co-signed proposal
billStatus: Bill status
pdfUrl: PDF download link for related documents
docUrl: DOC download link for related documents
selectTerm: Filtering criteria based on term

Details

The get_bills_2 function produces a list, which includes query_time, retrieved_number, retrieved_term, url, variable_names, manual_info, and data. For the user manual and more information about the dataframe, use get_variable_info("get_bills_2").

Note

For more details about the dataframe's variables, use get_variable_info("get_bills_2") or visit the API manual at https://data.ly.gov.tw/getds.action?id=20. Category: Provides bill-proposal records for legislators and the executive (available from the 8th term, 1st session, onwards).

Author

David Liao (davidycliao@gmail.com)

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
## Query the executives' responses by term and session period.
get_bills_2(term = 8, session_period = 1)
} # }