Slope-composition chart in R

Asked Nov 27 '17 at 14:31

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I know that it is formally not a programming question, but I still hope not to be very heavily downvoted for it. I am in fact looking not for the code itself but for the defining the right chart type to implement.

If there are two parties, both participated in elections in 1996, and 2001. And some of the voters stayed with the same party from one elections to another, and some of them switched, is it possible to chart such a slope-composition chart in R, and what is the right way doing it?

Here is a draft of what I have in mind.

asked Nov 27 '17 at 14:31

Philipp Chapkovski

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Please provide the input data in a reproducible form. See [mcve]. – G. Grothendieck Nov 27 '17 at 14:36
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you might be looking for a Sankey diagram ... there are some R implementations – Ben Bolker Nov 27 '17 at 14:43
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@BenBolker: YES! thank you! – Philipp Chapkovski Nov 27 '17 at 14:46
It's also called a parallel sets plot. There's a very nice implementation in the development version of the ggforce package. May require some effort to get to run, but should produce very nice results. https://twitter.com/thomasp85/status/900430849648275456 – Claus Wilke Nov 27 '17 at 22:52
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In fact, see here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/47104555/4975218 – Claus Wilke Nov 28 '17 at 06:24
@ClausWilke: That is fantastic. Exactly what I was looking for – Philipp Chapkovski Nov 28 '17 at 09:42

Slope-composition chart in R

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