congress

0.1.0

Access the Congress.gov API

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8.7Kdownloads / year

99.5%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Christopher T. KennyFirst published 2022-10-123 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Download and read data on United States congressional proceedings. Data is read from the Library of Congress's Congress.gov Application Programming Interface (https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/api.congress.gov/). Functions exist for all version 3 endpoints, including for bills, amendments, congresses, summaries, members, reports, communications, nominations, and treaties.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("congress", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("christopherkenny/congress")

Development version from christopherkenny/congress. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-congress

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-congress

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-congress

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 6.50

99.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 336 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 96%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

8.7K

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Rank #4,886 · ~24/day · ~724/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ christopherkenny/congress

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106Commits

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106 commits · Last activity 2026-06-26 · +5% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (9)

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none

Suggests (6)

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Nothing depends on this yet.

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Christopher T. Kenny

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Authors (1)

Christopher T. Kenny

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-10-12
Total releases: 3 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 136 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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