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English: A combination of opinion polls during the 2014 Quebec general election campaign. The trend lines are local regressions with α = 0.8 and 95% confidence interval ribbons. Election results are represented by diamonds.
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Author Abjiklam
Other versions File:QC sondages campagne 2014.svg

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The graph is generated by the following R script, largely inspired by this file.

library(RCurl)
library(reshape)
library(htmltab)
library(ggplot2)
library(stringr)
library(scales)

#get the table from the url
theurl <- getURL("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_general_election,_2014", ssl.verifyPeer=FALSE)
table <- htmltab(theurl, which=12)

df = table[2:nrow(table)-1, c(2, 5, 4, 6, 7)]
names(df) = c("Date", "QLP", "PQ", "CAQ", "QS")

df$Date = as.Date(substr(df[, 1], 9, 18))

for (i in c(2:5)) {
  df[[i]] = as.numeric(df[[i]])/100
}

mdata <- melt(df[3:nrow(df)-1, ], id="Date")
names(mdata)[2:3] = c("Party", "Support")
colors = c("#EA6D6A", "#87CEFA", "#9372D4", "#FF8040")
labels = c("QLP", "PQ", "CAQ", "QS")

results = mdata
election = data.frame(Date = rep(df$Date[1], 4),
                      Support = as.numeric(df[1, 2:5]),
                      Party = labels)

d = ggplot(results, aes(x=Date, y=Support, colour=Party)) +
  geom_point(alpha=0.7) + 
  geom_smooth(span=0.8, show.legend=F, alpha=0.3) + 
  scale_colour_manual(values = colors) + 
  labs(title="Polling during the 2014 Quebec electoral campaign") + 
  scale_y_continuous(breaks=seq(0,0.5,0.05), minor_breaks=seq(0,0.5,0.01), labels=percent,
                     limits=c(0, 0.5)) + 
  scale_x_date(labels=date_format("%b %d"),
               breaks=c(seq(as.Date("2014/3/5"), as.Date("2014/4/7"), "5 days"), as.Date("2014/4/7")),
               minor_breaks=seq(as.Date("2014/3/5"), as.Date("2014/4/7"), "day"),
               limits=c(as.Date("2014/3/5"), as.Date("2014/4/7"))) +
  theme(panel.grid.minor=element_line(size=0.2),
        panel.grid.major=element_line(size=0.8)) + 
  geom_point(data=election, size=3, shape=5, show.legend=F) + 
  geom_point(data=election, size=2, show.legend=F) + 
  geom_text(data=election, show.legend=F,
            aes(label=round(election$Support*100, digits=1)),
            size=3, hjust=-0.2, vjust=-0.4, color="#000000")

#save plot as "qc2014.svg"
svg(filename="qc2014.svg", 
    width=8, 
    height=5, 
    pointsize=12,
    bg="transparent")
d
dev.off()

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