Get all candidates throughout Massachusetts - downloads full data each time Suggest running once per session with defaults and then filtering later on community or office. Data downloads to temp subdirectory of your working directory (will be created if it doesn't exist).

get_local_candidates(
  place = "",
  office = "",
 
    the_url = "https://ocpf2.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/data/registered-candidates.zip"
)

Arguments

place

character string defaults to "" to load all

office

character string defaults to "" to load all

the_url

character string for OCPF url to download zip file

Value