LAPOP Cross-Country Bar Graphs

This function creates bar graphs for comparing values across countries using LAPOP formatting.

Usage

lapop_cc(
  data,
  outcome_var = data$prop,
  lower_bound = data$lb,
  vallabel = data$vallabel,
  upper_bound = data$ub,
  label_var = data$proplabel,
  ymin = 0,
  ymax = 100,
  lang = "en",
  highlight = "",
  main_title = "",
  source_info = "LAPOP",
  subtitle = "",
  sort = "",
  color_scheme = "#784885",
  label_size = 5,
  max_countries = 30,
  label_angle = 0
)

Arguments

data

Data Frame. Dataset to be used for analysis. The data frame should have columns titled vallabel (values of x-axis variable (e.g. pais); character vector), prop (outcome variable; numeric), proplabel (text of outcome variable; character), lb (lower bound of estimate; numeric), and ub (upper bound of estimate; numeric). Default: None (must be supplied).

vallabel, outcome_var, label_var, lower_bound, upper_bound

Character, numeric, character, numeric, numeric. Each component of the plot data can be manually specified in case the default columns in the data frame should not be used (if, for example, the values for a given variable were altered and stored in a new column). x

ymin, ymax

Numeric. Minimum and maximum values for y-axis. Default: 0 to 100.

lang

Character. Changes default subtitle text and source info to either Spanish or English. Will not translate input text, such as main title or variable labels. Takes either "en" (English) or "es" (Spanish). Default: "en".

highlight

Character. Country of interest. Will highlight (make darker) that country's bar. Input must match entry in "vallabel" exactly. Default: None.

main_title

Character. Title of graph. Default: None.

source_info

Character. Information on dataset used (country, years, version, etc.), which is added to the bottom-left corner of the graph. Default: LAPOP ("Source: LAPOP Lab" will be printed).

subtitle

Character. Describes the values/data shown in the graph, e.g., "percentage of Mexicans who say...)". Default: None.

sort

Character. Method of sorting bars. Options: "hi-lo" (highest to lowest y value), "lo-hi" (lowest to highest), "alpha" (alphabetical by vallabel/x-axis label). Default: Order of data frame.

color_scheme

Character. Color of bars. Takes hex number, beginning with "#". Default: #784885.

label_size

Numeric. Size of text for data labels (percentages above bars). Default: 5.

max_countries

Numeric. Threshold for automatic x-axis label rotation. When the number of unique country labels exceeds this value, labels will be rotated for better readability. Default: 20.

label_angle

Numeric. Angle (in degrees) to rotate x-axis labels when max_countries is exceeded. Default: 0.

Value

Returns an object of class ggplot, a ggplot figure showing average values of some variables across multiple countries.

Author

Luke Plutowski, luke.plutowski@vanderbilt.edu && Robert Vidigal, robert.vidigal@vanderbilt.edu

Examples

if (FALSE) lapop_fonts()

df <- data.frame(vallabel = c("PE", "CO", "BR", "PN", "GT", "DO", "MX", "BO", "EC",
                          "PY", "CL", "HN", "CR", "SV", "JA", "AR", "UY", "NI"),
                 prop = c(36.1, 19.3, 16.6, 13.3, 13, 11.1, 9.5, 9, 8.1, 8, 6.6,
                          5.7, 5.1, 3.4, 2.6, 1.9, 0.8, 0.2),
                 proplabel = c("36%" ,"19%" ,"17%" ,"13%" ,"13%" ,"11%" ,"10%",
                               "9%", "8%", "8%", "7%", "6%", "5%", "3%", "3%",
                               "2%", "1%", "0%"),
                 lb = c(34.9, 18.1, 15.4, 12.1, 11.8, 9.9, 8.3, 7.8, 6.9, 6.8,
                        5.4, 4.5, 3.9, 2.2, 1.4, 0.7, -0.4, -1),
                 ub = c(37.3, 20.5, 17.8, 14.5, 14.2, 12.3, 10.7, 10.2, 9.3,
                        9.2, 7.8, 6.9, 6.3, 4.6, 3.8, 3.1, 2, 1.4))

lapop_cc(df,
         main_title = "Normalization of Initimate Partner Violence in Seven LAC Countries",
         subtitle = "% who say domestic violence is private matter",
         source_info = ", 2021",
         highlight = "BR",
         ymax = 50) # \dontrun{}