Meeting Schedule Database

This database contains the information of LegCo committees, namely the name of all LegCo committees established since the fifth term and their corresponding member lists and meeting schedule.

Arguments

member_id

the id of a LegCo member, or a vector of ids. If NULL, returns results of all LegCo members. Defaults to NULL.

term_id

the id of a term, or a vector of ids. If NULL, returns results of all terms. Defaults to NULL.

session_id

the id of a session, or a vector of ids. If NULL, returns result of all sessions. Defaults to NULL.

slot_id

the id of a meeting slot, or a vector of ids. If NULL, returns all meetings. Defaults to NULL.

meet_id

the id of a meeting, or a vector of ids. If NULL, returns all meetings. Useful for matching meeting with records from the Attendance Database. Defaults to NULL.

committee_id

the id of a committee, or a vector of ids. If NULL, returns results of all committees. Defaults to NULL.

code

the code of a committee, or a vector of ids. If NULL, returns all committees. Defaults to NULL.

type

the type of meeting. If "open", returns open meetings. If "closed", returns closed meetings. If "all", returns all meetings. Defaults to "all".

post

the post of a member in the committee, or a vector of posts. "President", "Chairman", "Deputy Chairman", "Member" and "Convenor" return members of the respective post. If NULL, returns members of all posts. Defaults to NULL.

date

only fetch the result in which the specified date falls within. Accepts character values in "YYYY-MM-DD" format, and objects of class Date, POSIXt, POSIXct, POSIXlt or anything else that can be coerced to a date with as.Date(). Defaults to NULL.

extra_param

additional query parameters defined in LegCo API. Must begin with "&".

n

the number of record to fetch. Defaults to 1000.

count

logical: Whether to return only the total count of records that matches the parameter(s) instead of the result. Defaults to FALSE.

verbose

logical: Whether to display progress messages when fetching data? Defaults to TRUE.

Functions

Functions of the Meeting Schedule Database:

• term: LegCo terms

• session: LegCo sessions

• committee: LegCo committees

• membership: Membership of LegCo committees

• member: LegCo members

• member_term: Terms served by LegCo members

• meeting: Meetings of LegCo committees

• meeting_committee: Committees of LegCo meetings

See also

LegCo API documentation for the Meeting Schedule database: https://www.legco.gov.hk/en/open-legco/open-data/meeting-schedule.html