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

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.