congress - congress 0.0.3

New features

• When clean = TRUE, a new attribute is added (response_info) which provides pagination and request information.
• When clean = TRUE, date and datetime columns are now converted automatically to the correct types.

Upstream API Updates

• Addresses changes in December 2023 API changes (#16)

  • cong_amendment() can take item = 'text' for congress <= 117 and warns otherwise.

• Addresses changes in October 2023 API changes (#15)

  • No changes necessary within congress package. All changes upstream automatically handled.

• Addresses changes in October 2023 API changes (#14)

  • No changes necessary within congress package. All changes upstream automatically handled.

• Addresses changes in September 2023 API changes (#13)

  • All inputs are internally coerced to lowercase before being passed to the API. This excludes cong_treaty() which has case-sensitive suffixes.

• Addresses changes in August 2023 API changes (#12)

  • Adds cong_bound_record() to access new bound-congressional-record API endpoint.

• Addresses changes in July 2023 API changes (#11)

  • Adds cong_daily_record() to access new daily-congressional-record API endpoint.

• Addresses changes in June 2023 API changes (#10)

  • No changes necessary within congress package. All changes upstream automatically handled.

• Addresses changes in May 2023 API changes (#9)

  • Supports new item endpoint within cong_house_requirement()
  • Renames (internal) cong_house_communication() endpoint when number is provided. This is due to an upstream change from house-communication to houseCommunication.

• Addresses changes in March 2023 API changes (#7)

  • Adds cong_hearing() to access new hearing API endpoint.
  • Adds cong_committee_meeting() to access new committee-meeting API endpoint.
  • Adds cong_committee_print() to access new committee-print API endpoint.

Bug fixes

• Resolves a bug in cong_senate_communication() where providing number would return an empty tibble.
• Resolves a bug in cong_member() where rows would be duplicated if bioguide was provided.
• Resolves a bug in cong_amendment() where rows would be duplicated if item was provided.
• Resolves a bug in cong_bill() where some rows were (sometimes) duplicated if item was provided.

Deprecated functions

• Removes cong_communication() (Deprecated in 0.0.2) in favor of cong_house_communication().

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Published by christopherkenny about 2 years ago