An R client for interacting with the White House's "We The People" petition API.

Documentation for package ‘wethepeople’ version 0.2

wethepeople-package	A package for working with the We The People data.
generate_wordcloud_plots	Generates plots of wordclouds for each petition.
melt_issues	Melts the petitions data.frame, creating multiple rows for each petition issue.
petitions	Petitions loaded Feb 19, 2013
petitions_from_json	Transforms petitions from JSON to a data.frame
petition_term_document_matrix	Calculates the TermDocumentMatrix for petitions.
plot_issues_over_time	Generates a plot of issues over time.
plot_issues_pending_response	Generates a plot of issues pending response over time.
plot_signature_count	Plots the signature counts over time.
plot_status_by_creation	Plots the statuses according to the creatio time.
plot_wordcloud	Plots a wordcloud for the given petitions.
signatures	Signatures loaded Feb 19, 2013
signatures_from_json	Transforms Signatures from JSON to a data.frame
users_from_json	Transforms Users from JSON to a data.frame
wethepeople	A package for working with the We The People data.
WeThePeopleClient	We The People API Client, based on RCurl. see RCurl