In lwarode/partycoloR: Extracting party color from English Wikipedia party pages

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partycoloR

The goal of partycoloR is to extract color information from Wikipedia articles of political parties. Party colors are playing a crucial role in visually identifying political parties. The function wikipedia_party_color extracts the party color code (HEX/HTML color codes / names) from webscraped English Wikipedia political party pages. The input argument needs to be a list and the function generates a data frame / tibble with all the extracted color codes / names.

Installation

You can install the released version of partycoloR from GitHub with:

devtools::install_github("lwarode/partycoloR")

Example

The input argument is a list of political party articles (URL) from English Wikipedia. The function returns a data frame / tibble with all party colors (as HEX color or HTML color code).

party_list <- list(
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)"
)

party_color_df <- wikipedia_party_color(party_list)

glimpse(party_color_df)