Web scraping in R

Learn how to extract data directly from a web page, referred as web scraping, in R through a real life example

Antoine Soetewey
13 min readJan 16

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Web scraping in R
Photo by Florian Olivo

This post has been written in collaboration with Pietro Zanotta.

Introduction

Almost anyone is familiar with web pages (otherwise you would not be here), but what if we tell you that how you…

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Antoine Soetewey

PhD candidate and teaching assistant in statistics at UCLouvain. Interested in statistics, R, and making them accessible to everyone. Author of statsandr.com.