ff_plot_demo_bar: Bar Chart of Demographics

In forsythfuture/FFtools: Consolidates common functions and commands used by Forsyth Futures

Bar Chart of Demographics

Description

This function creates a bar chart of a given demographic for the most recent year within Forsyth County.

Usage

ff_plot_demo_bar(
  data,
  demographic,
  y_axis_title,
  percent = F,
  dollar = F,
  color_palette = "Set 2"
)

Arguments

data	Name of the dataframe with columns outlined above
demographic	String in the 'type' column that signifies the demographic
y_axis_title	Title for y axis and tooltip
percent	Boolean (TRUE / FALSE), whether estimate value is a percent; this will add percent labels to axis
dollar	Boolean (TRUE / FALSE), whether estimate value is a dollar; this will add dollar labels to the axis
color_palette	string representing the color palette to use, possible palettes are qualitative palettes from the <a href="http://library http://colorspace.r-forge.r-project.org/reference/hcl_palettes.html">'colorspace' library</a>.

Details

The input dataset needs to have, at a minimum, columns of the following form and with the following names: - year: year of the data - geo_description: geography (needs Forsyth County as one of the geographies) - type: general description of the demographic identifier (Race and Ethnicity, Total Population, etc) - subtype: specific description of the demographic identifier (African American, Employment Rate, etc) - estimate: value

Value

bar plot of the most recent year of data

Examples

years <- seq(2006, 2017, 1)

df <- data.frame(
   year = rep(seq(2007, 2017, 1), each=3),
   geo_description = "Forsyth County, NC",
   type = "Race and Ethnicity",
   subtype = rep(c("African American", "White", "Hispanic / Latino"),11),
   stringsAsFactors = FALSE
)

ff_plot_demo_bar(data = df,
                 demographic = "Race and Ethnicity",
                 y_axis_title = "Employment Rate (%)",
                 percent = T,
                 dollar = F)

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