Learn R Programming

⚠️There's a newer version (1.4.1) of this package.Take me there.

eechidna (version 1.3.0)

Exploring Election and Census Highly Informative Data Nationally for Australia

Description

Data from the six Australian Federal Elections (House of Representatives) between 2001 and 2016, and from the four Australian Censuses over the same period. Includes tools for visualizing and analysing the data, as well as imputing Census data for years in which a Census does not occur. This package incorporates data that is copyright Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Electoral Commission) 2016.

Copy Link

Version

Install

install.packages('eechidna')

Monthly Downloads

57

Version

1.3.0

License

GPL (>= 2)

Issues

Pull Requests

Stars

Forks

Repository

https://github.com/ropenscilabs/eechidna

Maintainer

Jeremy Forbes

Last Published

March 18th, 2019

Functions in eechidna (1.3.0)

2001 Australian Federal election data: First preference votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate.

aec_extract_f - extract subsets geographically

aec_carto_join_f

aec_carto_join_f - bind the cartogram coordinates to original data

aec_carto_f - run dorling on data centers

Load shapefile of Australia into R

Data of the Australian Electorates from 2004

2004 Australian Federal election data: First preference votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate.

Data of the Australian Electorates from 2001

Map of Australian Electorates from 2010

Map of Australian Electorates from 2007

eechidna-package

Exploring Election and Census Highly Informative Data Nationally for Australia

2013 Australian Federal election data: First preference votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate.

2016 Australian Federal election data: First preference votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate.

2007 Australian Federal election data: First preference votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate.

firstpref_pollingbooth_download

Download first preference voting data from each polling booth, from the six Australian Federal elections between 2001 and 2016.

2010 Australian Federal election data: First preference votes for candidates (House of House of Representative for each electorate

Imputed Australian Census data for the electorates in place at time of the 2004 Federal election

Data of the Australian Electorates from 2013

Compute areas of intersection between each election boundary and those in the Census of interest.

Data of the Australian Electorates from 2016

Data of the Australian Electorates from 2007

Data of the Australian Electorates from 2010

2004 Australian Federal election data: Two party preferred votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate.

Auto complete (or cut) a vector to a fixed length

2007 Australian Federal election data: Two party preferred votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate.

2016 Australian Federal election data: Two party preferred votes for candidates (House of Representative) in each electorate.

Download SpatialPolygonsDataFrame containing polygons of Australian federal electorates

2001 Australian Federal election data: Two candidate preferred votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate.

Map of Australian Electorates from 2013

twocand_pollingbooth_download

Download two candidate preference voting data from each polling booth, from the five Australian Federal elections between 2004 and 2016.

Produce a Pseudo-Dorling Cartogram.

2010 Australian Federal election data: Two party preferred votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate.

get_electorate_shapes

Extract shapefiles (of Australian electorates) from raw file into fortified map and data components.

Shiny app for exploring census and electorate data

2010 Australian Federal election data: Two candidate preferred votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate.

2013 Australian Federal election data: Two candidate preferred votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate.

twoparty_pollingbooth_download

Download two party preference voting data from each polling booth, from the six Australian Federal elections between 2001 and 2016.

2013 Australian Federal election data: Two party preferred votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate.

Map of Australian Electorates from 2001

Map of Australian Electorates from 2004

Map of Australian Electorates from 2016

2016 Australian Federal election data: Two candidate preferred votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate.

weighted_avg_census

Function to compute weighted average of Census information using imputed populations as weights

2001 Australian Federal election data: Two party preferred votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate. where Labor and Liberal parties were the two most popular parties.

2004 Australian Federal election data: Two candidate preferred votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate.

2007 Australian Federal election data: Two candidate preferred votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate.

2001 Australian Census data on all 150 electorates

2016 Australian Census data on all 150 electorates

2011 Australian Census data on all 150 electorates

2006 Australian Census data on all 150 electorates (2004 boundaries)

Imputed Australian Census data for the electorates in place at time of the 2007 Federal election

Imputed Australian Census data for the electorates in place at time of the 2013 Federal election

2006 Australian Census data on all 150 electorates (2007 boundaries)

Imputed Australian Census data for the electorates in place at time of the 2010 Federal election

aec_add_carto_f

aec_add_carto_f - computes and binds the cartogram coordinates to original data