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legihelpR 0.3.2

  • legiSearch() and legiSearchRaw() now return a zero-row data frame with the documented columns, instead of NULL, when a search matches nothing. The “No results found” warning is unchanged. Downstream code can call nrow(), select columns, or bind results without special-casing empty searches; existing is.null() guards will no longer trigger.
  • maxPages in legiSearch() and legiSearchRaw() now caps the number of pages fetched, as documented, rather than acting as a maximum page number. Behavior only changes when paginating from a custom starting page > 1.
  • legiSearchRaw() no longer errors (“argument is of length zero”) when a response arrives without a summary$page_total; it stops paginating and returns what it collected.
  • legiSearch() drops the summary block from responses by name rather than by position, matching getMasterList(), so a reordered response can never silently discard a result row.
  • legiSearch() uses summary$page_total to detect the final page instead of the “fewer than 50 rows” heuristic, which spent one extra API query whenever the result count was an exact multiple of the page size.
  • getMasterList() no longer emits a blank message when a response has no session block.
  • DESCRIPTION now declares the required httr2 (>= 1.1.0) and drops the unused LazyData field.

legihelpR 0.3.1

  • Renamed function arguments to a consistent camelCase ID convention (e.g. billID, sessionID, peopleID, legiKey).
  • Document functions (getText(), getAmendment(), getSupplement(), getDataset()) gained a file argument to decode base64 documents to disk.
  • Search pagination is capped with maxPages (default 10) to protect API quota; use Inf to fetch every page.
  • Added a change-detection vignette.