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filibustr

Data Utilities for Congressional Research

v0.5.1 · Dec 5, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Provides easy-to-understand and consistent interfaces for accessing data on the U.S. Congress. The functions in 'filibustr' streamline the process for importing data on Congress into R, removing the need to download and work from CSV files and the like. Data sources include 'Voteview' (<https://voteview.com/>), the U.S. Senate website (<https://www.senate.gov/>), and more.

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ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

examples

Running examples in ‘filibustr-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv")
> ### Name: get_hvw_data
> ### Title: Get replication data from Harbridge-Yong, Volden, and Wiseman
> ###   (2023)
> ### Aliases: get_hvw_data
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> ## Don't show: 
> if (!is.null(curl::nslookup("dataverse.harvard.edu", error = FALSE))) withAutoprint({ # examplesIf
+ ## End(Don't show)
+ get_hvw_data("senate")
+ ## Don't show: 
+ }) # examplesIf
> get_hvw_data("senate")
Error in basename(x) : a character vector argument expected
Calls: withAutoprint ... <Anonymous> -> ifelse -> grepl -> is.factor -> basename
Execution halted
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ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 9, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

examples

Running examples in ‘filibustr-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv")
> ### Name: get_hvw_data
> ### Title: Get replication data from Harbridge-Yong, Volden, and Wiseman
> ###   (2023)
> ### Aliases: get_hvw_data
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> ## Don't show: 
> if (!is.null(curl::nslookup("dataverse.harvard.edu", error = FALSE))) withAutoprint({ # examplesIf
+ ## End(Don't show)
+ get_hvw_data("senate")
+ ## Don't show: 
+ }) # examp

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Version History

new 0.5.1 Mar 9, 2026