Learn R Programming

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

eechidna (version 1.4.0)

Exploring Election and Census Highly Informative Data Nationally for Australia

Description

Data from the seven Australian Federal Elections (House of Representatives) between 2001 and 2019, 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 and Australian Bureau of Statistics) 2019.

Copy Link

Version

Install

install.packages('eechidna')

Monthly Downloads

58

Version

1.4.0

License

GPL (>= 2)

Issues

Pull Requests

Stars

Forks

Repository

https://github.com/ropenscilabs/eechidna

Maintainer

Jeremy Forbes

Last Published

November 8th, 2019

Functions in eechidna (1.4.0)

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

Imputed Australian Census data for the electorates in place at time of the 2019 Federal election

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

2001 Australian Census data on all 150 electorates

aec_add_carto_f

aec_add_carto_f - computes and binds the cartogram coordinates to original data

2016 Australian Census data on all 150 electorates

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

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

2011 Australian Census data on all 150 electorates

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

Produce a Pseudo-Dorling Cartogram.

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

extract_centroids

Extract centroids from the polygons within a shapefile.

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

2013 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.

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

Data and centroids corresponding to the Australian Electorates from 2019

Data and centroids corresponding to the Australian Electorates from 2016

eechidna-package

Exploring Election and Census Highly Informative Data Nationally for Australia

Map of Australian Electorates from 2010

Map of Australian Electorates from 2013

nat_data_download

Download DataFrame containing the data associated with Australian federal electorates

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

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

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

Data and centroids corresponding to the Australian Electorates from 2010

Data and centroids corresponding to the Australian Electorates from 2013

aec_carto_f - run dorling on data centers

Data and centroids corresponding to the Australian Electorates from 2007

nat_map_download

Download DataFrame containing the polygons of Australian federal electorates

Data and centroids corresponding to the Australian Electorates from 2004

aec_carto_join_f

aec_carto_join_f - bind the cartogram coordinates to original data

Compute areas of intersection between each election boundary and those in the Census of interest. This is a less refined method than using SA1 centroids.

2019 Australian Federal election data: First preference 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.

Data and centroids corresponding to the Australian Electorates from 2001

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

Map of Australian Electorates from 2004

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

allocate_electorate

Determine which electoral division contains the centroid from each of the Census polygons.

aec_extract_f - extract subsets geographically

Download SpatialPolygonsDataFrame containing polygons of Australian federal electorates

Map of Australian Electorates from 2007

twocand_pollingbooth_download

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

twoparty_pollingbooth_download

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

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

Shiny app for exploring census and electorate data

Load shapefile of Australia into R

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

2019 Australian Federal election data: Two candidate preferred votes for candidates (House of Representatives) in each electorate.

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

Map of Australian Electorates from 2001

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

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.

weighted_avg_census

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

2019 Australian Federal election data: Two party preferred votes for candidates (House of Representative) in each electorate.

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

weighted_avg_census_sa1

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

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

Map of Australian Electorates from 2016

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

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

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

Map of Australian Electorates from 2019