Shiny app for exploring census and electorate data

launch_app(
  election_year = 2016,
  age = c("Age00_04", "Age05_14", "Age15_19", "Age20_24", "Age25_34", "Age35_44",
    "Age45_54", "Age55_64", "Age65_74", "Age75_84", "Age85plus"),
  religion = c("Christianity", "Catholic", "Buddhism", "Islam", "Judaism", "NoReligion"),
  other = c("AusCitizen", "MedianPersonalIncome", "Unemployed", "BachelorAbv",
    "Indigenous", "EnglishOnly", "OtherLanguageHome", "Married", "DeFacto",
    "FamilyRatio", "Owned"),
  palette = c("#1B9E77", "#F0027F", "#E6AB02", "#66A61E", "#7570B3", "#D95F02",
    "#3690C0")
)

Arguments

election_year

Year of Federal election to be explored (2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022)

age

Age variables to show. Variable(s) should match column names from abs2016. By default, all variables are shown.

religion

Religion variables to show. Variable(s) should match column names from abs2016. By default, all variables are shown.

other

Other census variables to show. Variable(s) should match column names from abs2016. By default, all variables are shown.

palette

a named character vector of selection colors. The vector names are used as the display in the drop-down control.

Author

Carson Sievert

Examples

if (FALSE) {
library(shiny)
library(plotly)
library(tidyverse)
# for comparing labor/liberal
launch_app(
  election_year = 2022,
  age = c("Age20_24", "Age25_34", "Age55_64"),
  religion = c("Christianity", "Catholic", "NoReligion"),
  other = c("AusCitizen", "MedianPersonalIncome", "Unemployed")
)

# for inspecting highly contested areas
launch_app(
  election_year = 2022,
  age = c("Age25_34", "Age35_44", "Age55_64"),
  religion = c("Christianity", "Catholic", "NoReligion"),
  other = c("Owned", "Indigenous", "AusCitizen")
)

launch_app()

}