extract margins from the results of a ballot count

extract margins from the results of a ballot count

Usage

extractMargins(marginNames, crRanks, cr)

Arguments

marginNames

list of colnames of the margins in our SafeRank result

crRanks

ranks of candidates, not necessarily total

cr

structure returned by a ballot-counting method

Margins are adjusted for tied candidates, such that candidates within a tie group have margins indicative of their relative strengths. Extremely small margins are indicative of floating-point roundoff errors.

Value

named list of margins