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govinfoR offers an easy way to access data provided by the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) GovInfo API in R. It’s currently in early development, but functions for all GET endpoints are available. The API’s search endpoint, which as of this writing is in Public Preview, is outside the scope of this package at present.
You can install the stable version of govinfoR from CRAN with:
You can install the development version of govinfoR from GitHub with:
This first example loads the package, sets the API key (gotten from the environment), and gets metadata about all 39 GovInfo collections.
library(govinfoR)
gpo_collections()
#> # A tibble: 39 × 4
#> collection_code collection_name package_count granule_count
#> <chr> <chr> <int> <int>
#> 1 BILLS Congressional Bills 260096 NA
#> 2 BILLSTATUS Congressional Bill Status 147507 NA
#> 3 BUDGET United States Budget 338 6759
#> 4 CCAL Congressional Calendars 5516 88218
#> 5 CDIR Congressional Directory 237 15024
#> 6 CDOC Congressional Documents 24174 9580
#> 7 CFR Code of Federal Regulations 6090 7155023
#> 8 CHRG Congressional Hearings 38974 285
#> 9 CMR Congressionally Mandated Reports 244 NA
#> 10 COMPS Statutes Compilations 2449 NA
#> # ℹ 29 more rowsThe following example demonstrates getting all records in the BILLS collection since midnight yesterday.
The package provides three simple helpers to make it easier to specify dates as arguments to functions (
yesterday(),today(), andtomorrow())
gpo_collections(collection = "BILLS", start_date = "2024-02-17T00:00:00Z")
#> # A tibble: 29 × 7
#> package_id last_modified package_link doc_class title congress
#> <chr> <dttm> <chr> <fct> <chr> <int>
#> 1 BILLS-118hr7278ih 2024-02-17 05:46:41 https://api… hr Hous… 118
#> 2 BILLS-118hr7275ih 2024-02-17 05:46:41 https://api… hr Comp… 118
#> 3 BILLS-118hr7288ih 2024-02-17 05:46:31 https://api… hr Arme… 118
#> 4 BILLS-118hr7287ih 2024-02-17 05:46:31 https://api… hr Coun… 118
#> 5 BILLS-118hr7286ih 2024-02-17 05:46:31 https://api… hr Gene… 118
#> 6 BILLS-118hr7277ih 2024-02-17 05:46:26 https://api… hr Halt… 118
#> 7 BILLS-118hr7276ih 2024-02-17 05:46:25 https://api… hr Tele… 118
#> 8 BILLS-118hr7274ih 2024-02-17 05:46:25 https://api… hr Conn… 118
#> 9 BILLS-118hr6544rh 2024-02-17 05:44:35 https://api… hr Atom… 118
#> 10 BILLS-118hres1021ih 2024-02-17 05:44:30 https://api… hres Prov… 118
#> # ℹ 19 more rows
#> # ℹ 1 more variable: date_issued <date>Examples of the use of other package functions are in the documentation.
These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.