reshape_precinct_data: Reshape County Precinct Data for Candidates to OpenElex...

In amkessler/precinctsopenelex: Helps Process Precinct Results For OpenElex Project

Description

This function is designed to take a wide dataset with one row per precinct and candidate vote columns and reshape once the initial pre-processing is done. The file to import should have have a precinct column, followed by columns with vote results formatted as "candidate - party". The resulting dataframe will be long/tidy data with these columns: precinct, office, district, party, votes.

Usage

reshape_precinct_data(df, office, district)

Arguments

df	formatted dataframe of county precinct-level results
office	which office the results refer to (e.g. "presidential", "U.S. House", "State Senate", etc.)
district	number for what district is associated with the office (e.g. "45" for the 45th congressional district. note presidential should be left blank as "")

Value

a reshaped dataframe in openelex long/tidy format

Examples

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reshape_precinct_data(mydataframe)

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