(This article was first published on is.R(), and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
You’ve already seen everyone else’s electoral map (see this amazing array of maps from 2008), how would you like to make your own?
Today’s Gist allows you to do just that — input (manually!) state-by-state results, and output a beautiful choropleth map of presidential election results!
This code, of course, can be used for any number of state-level measures, so you might want to bookmark this one for future use.
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