Scrape website data with the new R package rvest (+ a postscript on interacting with web pages with RSelenium)

Copying tables or lists from a website is not only a painful and dull activity but it's error prone and not easily reproducible. Thankfully there are packages in Python and R to automate the process. In a previous post we described using Python's Beautiful Soup to extract information from web pages. In this post we […]

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