even for people who didn't like the outcome of the US elections this year, it must have been a joy to see all the nice (and not so nice) graphs that were shown. As an exercise, I recreated the map shown on the NY-Times website [ http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2004/11/03/politics/ 20041103_px_ELECT_GRAPHIC.html ]
If you're interested,
http://www.ai.rug.nl/~hedderik/R/US2004
contains the created maps, the data and the code. Note that there are some differences in the R map and the NYT map (most notably with respect to some missing data in some New England states, some mismatches in county names, and the representation of NYC), but I was quite satisfied with the map as it stands now.
- Hedderik.
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