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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 discreteRColorBrewer
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 onRColorBrewer
scales (passing in a 6 elementRColorBrewer
palette toscale_fill_gradientn
).
News
- Version
1.0.0
released
Installation
devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/statebins")
Usage
library(statebins)
# current verison
packageVersion("statebins")
## [1] '1.0'
# 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
# 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
# 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
# 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")
grid.arrange(sb("avgshare94_00", "1994-2000"), sb("avgshare01_07", "2001-2007"),
sb("avgshare08_12", "2008-2012"), ncol=2)
Test Results
library(statebins)
library(testthat)
date()
## [1] "Tue Aug 26 13:18:47 2014"
test_dir("tests/")
## basic functionality :