inst/doc/partycoloR_vignette.R

## ----include = FALSE----------------------------------------------------------
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  eval = FALSE
)

## ----setup--------------------------------------------------------------------
# library(partycoloR)
# library(dplyr)

## ----basic-color--------------------------------------------------------------
# # Single party
# dem_url <- "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)"
# get_party_color(dem_url)
# #> "#0015BC"
# 
# # Multiple parties
# urls <- c(
#   "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)",
#   "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)",
#   "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_of_the_United_States"
# )
# get_party_color(urls)
# #> "#0015BC" "#E81B23" "#17AA5C"

## ----all-colors---------------------------------------------------------------
# # German CDU has black and orange
# cdu_url <- "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_Germany"
# get_party_color(cdu_url, all_colors = TRUE)
# #> [[1]]
# #> [1] "#000000" "#FF6600"

## ----logo---------------------------------------------------------------------
# get_party_logo(dem_url)
# #> "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/..."

## ----download-logo------------------------------------------------------------
# # Get logo URL and download it
# logo_url <- get_party_logo(dem_url)
# download_party_logo(logo_url, "democratic_logo.png")
# 
# # Or use a pipeline with get_party_logo_by_name()
# get_party_logo_by_name("SPD", country = "DEU") %>%
#   download_party_logo("spd_logo.svg")

## ----party-info---------------------------------------------------------------
# get_party_info(urls)
# #> # A tibble: 3 x 3
# #>   url                                                      color   logo_url
# #>   <chr>                                                    <chr>   <chr>
# #> 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(Unite... #0015BC https://...
# #> 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(Unite... #E81B23 https://...
# #> 3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_of_the_Unit... #17AA5C https://...

## ----dplyr--------------------------------------------------------------------
# parties <- tibble(
#   party = c("Democrats", "Republicans", "Greens"),
#   wiki_url = c(
#     "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)",
#     "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)",
#     "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_of_the_United_States"
#   )
# )
# 
# parties %>%
#   mutate(
#     color = get_party_color(wiki_url),
#     logo = get_party_logo(wiki_url)
#   )

## ----multiple-colors-dplyr----------------------------------------------------
# library(purrr)
# 
# german_parties <- tibble(
#   party = c("CDU", "SPD"),
#   wiki_url = c(
#     "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_Germany",
#     "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany"
#   )
# )
# 
# # Extract all colors as a list-column, then extract individual colors
# german_parties %>%
#   mutate(
#     all_colors = get_party_color(wiki_url, all_colors = TRUE),
#     color_1 = map_chr(all_colors, pluck, 1, 1, .default = NA_character_),
#     color_2 = map_chr(all_colors, pluck, 1, 2, .default = NA_character_)
#   )
# #> # A tibble: 2 x 5
# #>   party wiki_url                              all_colors color_1 color_2
# #>   <chr> <chr>                                 <list>     <chr>   <chr>
# #> 1 CDU   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris.. <list [1]> #000000 #FF6600
# #> 2 SPD   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci..  <list [1]> #E3000F NA

## ----unnest-colors------------------------------------------------------------
# german_parties %>%
#   mutate(all_colors = get_party_color(wiki_url, all_colors = TRUE)) %>%
#   tidyr::unnest_longer(all_colors) %>%
#   tidyr::unnest_longer(all_colors, values_to = "color")
# #> # A tibble: 3 x 3
# #>   party wiki_url                                               color
# #>   <chr> <chr>                                                  <chr>
# #> 1 CDU   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Democratic...  #000000
# #> 2 CDU   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Democratic...  #FF6600
# #> 3 SPD   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Pa...  #E3000F

## ----partyfacts-download------------------------------------------------------
# # Download the current Party Facts Wikipedia dataset
# pf_data <- get_partyfacts_wikipedia()
# head(pf_data)
# #> # A tibble: 6 x 8
# #>   country partyfacts_id url         name_short name  name_native year_founded
# #>   <chr>           <int> <chr>       <chr>      <chr> <chr>              <int>
# #> 1 AFG              6641 https://... NA         Afgh... NA                 1966
# #> ...

## ----lookup-------------------------------------------------------------------
# # Search for a party by name
# lookup_party_url("SPD", country = "DEU")
# #> # A tibble: 1 x 8
# #>   country partyfacts_id url                             name_short name
# #>   <chr>           <int> <chr>                           <chr>      <chr>
# #> 1 DEU              1375 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... SPD      Social...
# 
# # Search across all countries
# lookup_party_url("Labour")

## ----by-name------------------------------------------------------------------
# # Get SPD color directly by name
# get_party_color_by_name("SPD", country = "DEU")
# #> "#E3000F"
# 
# # If multiple parties match, returns a tibble with all matches
# get_party_color_by_name("Labour")
# #> # A tibble: 12 x 9
# #>    country partyfacts_id url    name_short name  ... color
# #>    ...

## ----visualization, fig.width=7, fig.height=4---------------------------------
# library(ggplot2)
# 
# # Example data: German 2021 election results
# german_parties <- tibble(
#   party = c("SPD", "CDU/CSU", "Greens", "FDP", "AfD", "Left"),
#   vote_share = c(25.7, 24.1, 14.8, 11.5, 10.3, 4.9),
#   wiki_url = c(
#     "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany",
#     "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_Germany",
#     "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_90/The_Greens",
#     "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Democratic_Party_(Germany)",
#     "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany",
#     "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_(Germany)"
#   )
# )
# 
# # Get party colors
# german_parties <- german_parties %>%
#   mutate(color = get_party_color(wiki_url))
# 
# # Create bar chart with party colors
# ggplot(german_parties, aes(x = reorder(party, -vote_share), y = vote_share)) +
#   geom_col(fill = german_parties$color) +
#   labs(
#     title = "German Federal Election 2021",
#     x = NULL,
#     y = "Vote Share (%)"
#   ) +
#   theme_minimal()

## ----errors-------------------------------------------------------------------
# # Invalid URLs return NA
# get_party_color("https://not-wikipedia.com/page")
# #> NA
# 
# # Non-existent pages return NA
# get_party_color("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonexistent_Party_12345")
# #> NA
# 
# # Mixed valid and invalid URLs
# urls <- c(
#   "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)",
#   NA,
#   "invalid_url"
# )
# get_party_color(urls)
# #> "#0015BC" NA NA

## ----caching------------------------------------------------------------------
# # First call downloads the data
# pf_data <- get_partyfacts_wikipedia()
# 
# # Subsequent calls use the cache (faster)
# pf_data <- get_partyfacts_wikipedia()
# 
# # Clear the cache if needed
# clear_partycolor_cache()

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