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In smach/relectionutils: Utilities For Processing Election Data

relectionutils

This package has a few functions that I use regularly to process election data:

• elec_find_winner -- For a data frame with city/precinct/place results by row, each candidate/issue raw vote total in a separate column. This function finds the candidate/issue/column name with the highest total in each row, returning the column name. It accounts for ties.

• elec_pcts_by_row -- Also for a data frame with city/precinct/place results by row, each candidate/issue raw vote total by column. This function calculates the percent for each candidate/issue in each row and adds intuitively named percent columns to the data frame.

IN PROGRESS:

• elec_results_map -- Creates an interactive Leaflet map of results for a two-candidate race or yes/no ballot question, one color for each option. This map shows color intensity by voting percent and not simply binary colors showing who won and lost. There is an optional layer for turnout if the data includes a column named Turnout with turnout percentage as a decimal value between 0 and 1.

smach/relectionutils documentation built on May 30, 2019, 3:06 a.m.