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statebins is an alternative to choropleth maps for US States

The following functions are implemented:

  • statebins -
  • statebins_continuous -

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

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gg2 <- statebins_continuous(dat, "state", "avgshare01_07",
                legend_title="States", legend_position="none",
                brewer_pal="OrRd", text_color="black", font_size=3, 
                plot_title="2001-2007", title_position="bottom")

gg2

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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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Test Results

library(statebins)
library(testthat)

date()
## [1] "Mon Aug 25 22:36:21 2014"
test_dir("tests/")
## basic functionality :