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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_dateDate of data retrieval
    versionData version from the API
    is_main_topicLogical indicator for whether the topic is a main topic
    main_topic_idId of main topic
    idId of topic
    nameName of topic
  2. $main_topics (exclusively main topics, if keep_sub_topics = TRUE)

    response_dateDate of data retrieval
    versionData version from the API
    is_main_topicLogical indicator for whether the topic is a main topic
    main_topic_idId of main topic
    idId of topic
    nameName of topic

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# 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), ]
} # }