catchpole

2020 Democrat POTUS Delegate Map Tracker

Description

Tools to build a 2020 (D) delegate cartogram

CREDIT

The hard work was done by WSJ’s Brian McGill ([@brian_mcgill](https://twitter.com/brian_mcgill/)) who manually crafted the base cartogram over days then translated that into the beautiful and illuminating creation that is the WSJ online delegate tracker: https://www.wsj.com/graphics/elections/2020/track-the-delegate-count/.

Brians’s tweetnouncement: https://twitter.com/brian_mcgill/status/1222556373864648704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

What’s Inside The Tin

The following functions are implemented:

• delegates_map: Retrieves the delegates basemap
• delegates_pal: WSJ palette for the candidates likely getting delegates
• expand_candidates: Expand the state totals per delegate into an indexed data frame
• gg_catchpole: Plot a U.S. Democratic Delegates Cartogram (2020)
• read_delegates: Retrieves current U.S. State delegate assignments for 2020 from the WSJ

Installation

remotes::install_git("https://git.rud.is/hrbrmstr/catchpole.git")
# or
remotes::install_git("https://git.sr.ht/~hrbrmstr/catchpole")
# or
remotes::install_gitlab("hrbrmstr/catchpole")
# or
remotes::install_bitbucket("hrbrmstr/catchpole")
# or
remotes::install_github("hrbrmstr/catchpole")

NOTE: To use the ‘remotes’ install options you will need to have the {remotes} package installed.

Usage

library(catchpole)

# current version
packageVersion("catchpole")
## [1] '0.1.1'

library(sf)
library(catchpole) # hrbrmstr/catchpole
library(hrbrthemes)
library(tidyverse)

gg_catchpole() +
  theme_ft_rc(grid="") +
  theme(legend.position = "bottom")

catchpole Metrics

Lang	# Files	(%)	LoC	(%)	Blank lines	(%)	# Lines	(%)
R	8	0.89	78	0.84	28	0.58	44	0.57
Rmd	1	0.11	15	0.16	20	0.42	33	0.43

Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.