elec88 {ade4}R Documentation

Electoral Data

Description

This data set gives the results of the presidential election in France in 1988 for each department and all the candidates.

Usage

data(elec88)

Format

elec88 is a list of 7 components.

tab
is a data frame with 94 rows (departments) and 9 variables (candidates)
res
is the global result of the election all-over the country.
lab
is the vector of the names of the 94 french departments.
area
is the dataframe of 3 variables returning the boundary lines of each department. The first variable is a factor. The levels of this one are the row.names of tab. The second and third variables return the coordinates (x,y) of the points of the boundary line.
contour
is a data frame with 4 variables (x1,y1,x2,y2)for the contour display of France
xy
is a data frame with two variables (x,y) giving the position of the center for each department
neig
is the neighbouring graph between departments, object of the class neig

Source

Public data

Examples

data(elec88)
apply(elec88$tab, 2, mean)
summary(elec88$res)

par(mfrow = c(2,2))
plot(elec88$area[,2:3], type = "n", asp = 1)
lpoly <- split(elec88$area[,2:3], elec88$area[,1])
lapply(lpoly, function(x) {points (x,type = "l");invisible()})
polygon(elec88$area[elec88$area$V1=="D25", 2:3], col = 1)
area.plot(elec88$area, graph = elec88$neig, lwdg = 1)
polygon(elec88$area[elec88$area$V1=="D25", 2:3], col = 1)
pca1 <- dudi.pca(elec88$tab, scal = FALSE, scan = FALSE)
area.plot(elec88$area, val = elec88$xy[,1] + elec88$xy[,2])
area.plot(elec88$area, val = pca1$li[,1], sub = "F1 PCA", 
    csub = 2, cleg = 1.5)
par(mfrow = c(1,1))

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