apportion
provides different apportionment methods for allocating
seats across states. These methods are also sometimes used for
allocating seats by votes in proportional representation systems.
You can install the development version of apportion
like so:
remotes::install_github('christopherkenny/apportion')
apportion
has several apportionment methods, each of which take two
required arguments: - size
: the number of seats to apportion across
units - pop
: a vector of population sizes for each unit
library(apportion)
## basic example code
data('state_2020')
app_adams(size = 435, pop = state_2020$pop)
#> [1] 7 1 9 4 50 8 5 2 27 14 2 3 16 9 4 4 6 6 2 8 9 13 8 4 8
#> [26] 2 3 4 2 12 3 26 14 1 15 5 6 17 2 7 2 9 37 5 1 11 10 3 8 1
Implemented methods include:
- the Adams Method (
app_adams()
) - the Balinski Young Method (
app_balinski_young()
) - the Dean Method (
app_dean()
) - the D’Hondt Method (
app_dhondt()
) - the Hamilton-Vinton Method (
app_hamilton_vinton()
) - the Huntington-Hill Method (
app_huntington_hill()
) - the Jefferson Method (
app_jefferson()
) - the Webster Method (
app_webster()
)