wakefield (version 0.3.3)

political: Generate Random Vector of Political Parties

Description

Generate a random vector of political parties.

Usage

political(n, x = c("Democrat", "Republican", "Constitution", "Libertarian",
  "Green"), prob = c(0.577269133302094, 0.410800432748879,
  0.00491084954793489, 0.00372590303330866, 0.0032936813677832),
  name = "Political")

Arguments

n

The number elements to generate. This can be globally set within the environment of r_data_frame or r_list.

x

A vector of elements to chose from.

prob

A vector of probabilities to chose from.

name

The name to assign to the output vector's varname attribute. This is used to auto assign names to the column/vector name when used inside of r_data_frame or r_list.

Value

Returns a random factor vector of political party elements.

Details

The political parties and probabilities used match approximate U.S. political make-up of registered voters (2014). The default make up is:

Party N Percent
Democrat 43,140,758 57.73%
Republican 30,700,138 41.08%
Constitution 367,000 .49%
Libertarian 278,446 .37%
Green 246,145 .33%

See Also

Other variable functions: age, animal, answer, area, car, children, coin, color, date_stamp, death, dice, dna, dob, dummy, education, employment, eye, grade_level, grade, group, hair, height, income, internet_browser, iq, language, level, likert, lorem_ipsum, marital, military, month, name, normal, race, religion, sat, sentence, sex_inclusive, sex, smokes, speed, state, string, upper, valid, year, zip_code

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
political(10)
barplot(table(political(10000)))
# }

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