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Why are these states not displaying the data when the data exists with the usmap package?

I'm trying to plot election results on the US map with the usmap package but even though the dataset is complete, I get plot that shows missing values for some states. The states are greyed out and I'm not sure why this is happening..

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plot_usmap(data=data_total,values='percent_biden')+
  scale_fill_continuous(low='red',high='blue',name='Percent for Biden')+
  theme(legend.position='right')+
  ggtitle(paste("Total Popular Vote of Final Results"))

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Solution

  • You are incorrectly assuming that usmap will infer any format for state names. For instance, both of these produce a working map,

    usmap::plot_usmap(data=data.frame(state=c("alabama","new york"),s=c(5,15)), values="s")
usmap::plot_usmap(data=data.frame(state=c("AL","NY"),s=c(5,15)), values="s")

    two states, take 1

    whereas inferring from your pic of data, you are trying

    usmap::plot_usmap(data=data.frame(state=c("alabama","new-york"),s=c(5,15)), values="s")
#                                                       ^ dash, not space

    alabama alone

    So I believe you need to clean up your data and fix your state names.