Hey John,
Yeah, I guess my blind trust in wikipedia got me in trouble this time.
The wikipedia colors are not the official colors, or maybe they just
contain errors. If you can find another website with a more
authoritative list you could adapt the technique. Or maybe wikipedia
is close enough.
Best,
Ista
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:04 AM, John Kane <jrkrid...@inbox.com> wrote:
> Excellent. I never thought of something like that. Clearly I need to look
> into the XML package more closely.
>
> The peculiar NDP orange comes through just great though for other readers,
> your example seems to assign the Canadian Alliance colours to the NDP.
> Quelle horreur!
>
> John Kane
> Kingston ON Canada
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: istaz...@gmail.com
>> Sent: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 09:43:25 -0400
>> To: jrkrid...@inbox.com
>> Subject: Re: [R] Canadian politcal party colours in ggplot2
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> How about this:
>>
>> library(XML)
>>
>> party.info <-
>> readHTMLTable("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Political_parties_and_politicians_in_Canada/list_of_parties";)
>> fed.party.info <- party.info[[3]]
>> fed.party.colors <- fed.party.info[, 2]
>> names(fed.party.colors) <- gsub("^.*\\|", "", fed.party.info[, 4])
>>
>> tmp <- data.frame(x=1:15,
>> y=1:15,
>> z=factor(rep(c("Canada Party", "NDP", "Socialist"),
>> each=5)))
>>
>> ggplot(tmp, aes(x=x, y=y)) +
>> geom_point(aes(color=z)) +
>> scale_color_manual(values = fed.party.colors)
>>
>> Best,
>> Ista
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:08 AM, John Kane <jrkrid...@inbox.com> wrote:
>>> A stupid question but does anyone know how to express the actual colours
>>> used by the main Canadian political parties? I want to do a couple of
>>> ggplot2 plots and have lines or rectangles that accurately reflect the
>>> party colours.
>>>
>>> I can probably play around with RColorBrewer or something to figure it
>>> out but if some some already has got them it would save me some time
>>> especially with the NDP orange.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> John Kane
>>> Kingston ON Canada
>>>
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