Relectoral (version 0.1.0)

Rae_corregido: Corrected Rae's disproportionality index ("Rco")

Description

It was Rae himself who realised the problems in calculating the RAE index by taking all parties into account. For this reason he reviewed the basis of the index and decided to exclude from the calculation all parties that did not reach 0.5 percent of the votes. The function created to calculate this index takes this corrective value by default, although it is allowed to enter another value, as it can be seen in the example below.

To compute its value, the integer vectors corresponding to the votes obtained by each party and their seats must be provided as parameters of the formula. The R code will be in charge of calculating the corresponding percentages in order to obtain the index.

Usage

Rae_corregido(votes, seats, correc = 0.5)

Arguments

votes

It is a vector of integers, containing ALL the votes of all the candidates.

seats

It is a vector of integers, containing ALL the seats obtained by each of the candidates.

correc

This is a decimal value that indicates the minimum percentage of votes needed in order to be taken into account for the formula. By default its value is 0.5.

Value

Returns the value obtained for the index

Examples

# NOT RUN {
Rae_corregido(c(1200, 30, 4000),c(10,6,8), correc = 1)
Rae_corregido(c(1200, 30, 4000),c(10,6,8))

# }