create_plot_data {plotDK}

Create Plot Data

Description

If data is provided, this functions attempts to merge the provided data with the geom-data inherent in the package on the chosen plotlevel. If no data is provided, only the geom-data for the chosen plotlevel is returned. This data is used to create the DK-plot.

Usage

create_plot_data(data, id, plotlevel, show_missing = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

data

A data.frame containing an ID-variable specifying either a municipality, region, province or zipcode (see id), as well as a value-variable containing any value to be plotted on the chosen level.

id

A character specifying the name of a column in data containing the ID on the chosen level.

For municipalities these variables can be either;

• A character-variable with danish municipality names. For accepted values see municipality_info.

• A numeric/integer-variable with official municipality numbers. For accepted values see municipality_info.

For regions these variables can either;

• A character-variable with danish region names. For accepted values see region_info.

• A numeric/integer-variable with danish region numbers. For accepted values see region_info.

For provinces these variables can be either;

• A character-variable with danish province names. For accepted values see province_info.

• A numeric/integer-variable with danish province numbers. For accepted values see province_info.

For zip-codes these variables can be;

• A numeric/integer-variable with danish zip-codes. For accepted values see zipcode_info.

plotlevel

character, indicating which level to plot. Valid options are "municipality", "region", "province", and "zipcode".

show_missing

logical. Should levels not present in data or with NA-values be printed? This can be used to plot only a subset of entities.

...

Further arguments to pass to merge_data

Value

A data.frame with either raw geom-data or geom-data merged with any data provided.