statebins is an alternative to choropleth maps for US States
The following functions are implemented:
- `statebins` - creates "statebin" charts in the style of < http: // bit . ly / statebins > - This version uses discrete `RColorBrewer` scales, binned by the "breaks" parameter.
- `statebins_continuous` - creates "statebin" charts in the style of < http: // bit . ly / statebins > - This version uses a continuous scale based on `RColorBrewer` scales (passing in a 6 element `RColorBrewer` palette to `scale_fill_gradientn` ).
### News
- Version `1.0.0` released
### Installation
``` {.r}
devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/statebins")
```
### Usage
``` {.r}
library(statebins)
# current verison
packageVersion("statebins")
```
## [1] '1.0'
``` {.r}
# the original wapo data
dat < - read . csv ( " http: / / www . washingtonpost . com / wp-srv / special / business / states-most-threatened-by-trade / states . csv ? cache = 1", stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
gg < - statebins ( dat , " state " , " avgshare94_00 " , breaks = 4,
labels=c("0-1", "1-2", "2-3", "3-4"),
legend_title="State Groups", font_size=3,
brewer_pal="Blues", text_color="black",
plot_title="1994-2000", title_position="bottom")
gg
```
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``` {.r}
# continuous scale, legend on top
gg2 < - statebins_continuous ( dat , " state " , " avgshare01_07 " ,
legend_title="State Data", legend_position="top",
brewer_pal="OrRd", text_color="black", font_size=3,
plot_title="2001-2007", title_position="bottom")
gg2
```
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``` {.r}
# continuous scale, no legend
gg3 < - statebins_continuous ( dat , " state " , " avgshare08_12 " ,
legend_title="States", legend_position="none",
brewer_pal="Purples", text_color="black", font_size=3,
plot_title="2008-2012", title_position="bottom")
gg3
```
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``` {.r}
# or, more like the one in the WaPo article; i might be picking the wrong columns here. it's just for an example
sb < - function ( col , title ) {
statebins(dat, "state",col, brewer_pal="Blues", text_color="black", legend_position="none", font_size=3, plot_title=title, breaks=4, labels=1:4)
}
image(1:4, 1, as.matrix(1:4), col = brewer.pal(4, name="Blues"), xlab = "", ylab = "", xaxt = "n", yaxt = "n", bty = "n")
```
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``` {.r}
grid.arrange(sb("avgshare94_00", "1994-2000"), sb("avgshare01_07", "2001-2007"),
sb("avgshare08_12", "2008-2012"), ncol=2)
```
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### Test Results
``` {.r}
library(statebins)
library(testthat)
date()
```
## [1] "Tue Aug 26 13:18:47 2014"
``` {.r}
test_dir("tests/")
```
## basic functionality :