senate_carto

'ProPublica' <https://projects.propublica.org/represent/> makes United States
Congress member votes available and has developed their own unique cartogram to visually
represent this data. Tools are provided to retrieve voting data, prepare voting data
for plotting with 'ggplot2', create vote cartograms and theme them.

Bob Rudis

voteogram

United States House and Senate Voting Cartogram Generators

ProPublica 

GovTrack 

senate_carto function

<dl><dt>vote_tally</dt>
<dd>either a <code>pprc</code> object (the result of a call to <code>roll_call()</code>) or
a <code>data.frame</code> of vote tallies for the senate. It expects 3 columns. <code>state_abbrev</code> : the
2-letter U.S. state abbreviation; <code>district</code> : either <code>1</code> or <code>2</code> to distinguish between
each senator; <code>party</code> : <code>R</code>, <code>D</code> or <code>ID</code>; <code>position</code> : <code>yes</code>, <code>no</code>, <code>present</code>, <code>none</code> for
how the senator voted.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Produce a Senate cartogram — senate_carto

<dl>

<dt>vote_tally</dt>
<dd>either a <code>pprc</code> object (the result of a call to <code>roll_call()</code>) or
a <code>data.frame</code> of vote tallies for the senate. It expects 3 columns. <code>state_abbrev</code> : the
2-letter U.S. state abbreviation; <code>district</code> : either <code>1</code> or <code>2</code> to distinguish between
each senator; <code>party</code> : <code>R</code>, <code>D</code> or <code>ID</code>; <code>position</code> : <code>yes</code>, <code>no</code>, <code>present</code>, <code>none</code> for
how the senator voted.</dd>

</dl>

senate_carto: Produce a Senate cartogram

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