Congressbr: An R Package for Analyzing Data from Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate.
In this research note, we introduce congressbr, an R package for retrieving data from the Brazilian houses of legislature. The package contains easy-to-use functions that allow researchers to query the Application Programming Interfaces of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate, perform...
| Published in: | Latin American Research Review Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 958 - 970 |
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Cambridge University Press
2019
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