The official certified votes by county from the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida. The data includes the number of votes for each of 6 candidates for each of the 67 Florida counties (plus the absentees votes). There were 12 presidential candidates. But, in the certified results, only 6 candidates appear: Bush, Gore, Browne, Nader, Harris, Hagelin.
To save the data do:
> florida_read.table("/home/arcones/MySwork/florida.txt",header=T,sep=",")
> county_florida[,1]
> bush_ florida[,2]
> gore_florida[,3]
> browne_ florida[,4]
> nader_florida[,5]
> harris_ florida[,6]
> hagelin_ florida[,7]
To get the total for each candidate do:
bush.tot_sum(bush) gore.tot_sum(gore) browne.tot_sum(browne) nader.tot_sum(nader) harris.tot_sum(harris) hagelin.tot_sum(hagelin)
To get the county percentage for each candidate do:
flor_c(bush,gore,browne,nader,harris,hagelin) florida2_matrix(flor,ncol=6,byrow=F) apply(florida2,2,sum) flor.perc_florida2/apply(florida2,1,sum) bush.perc_flor.perc[,1] gore.perc_flor.perc[,2] browne.perc_flor.perc[,3] nader.perc_flor.perc[,4] harris.perc_flor.perc[,5] hagelin.perc_flor.perc[,6]