Extract information on specific MPs

A function for retrieving information on Norwegian MPs from the parliament API

Usage

get_mp(mpid = NA, good_manners = 0)

Arguments

mpid

Character string indicating the id of the MP to retrieve.

good_manners

Integer. Seconds delay between calls when making multiple calls to the same function

Value

A data.frame with the following variables:

response_date	Date of data retrieval
version	Data version from the API
death	MP date of death, if applicable
last_name	MP last name
birth	MP date of birth
first_name	MP first name
id	MP id
gender	MP gender

See also

get_mp_bio get_parlperiod_mps get_mp_pic get_session_mp_speech_activity

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Request one MP by id
get_mp("AAMH")

# Request several MPs by id
ids <- c("AAMH", "AMSK", "MAAA")

mps <- lapply(ids, get_mp, good_manners = 2)

mps <- do.call(rbind, mps)
}