Web Scraping

Presenter: Erin York

Plan and Prerequisites

We will go over the basics of web scraping and I will introduce two useful packages for doing it in R – rvest and RSelenium.

Prerequisits

• Plese make sure that you have the latest version of Java installed (you can download it here). For those who use Homebrew/Caskroom on Mac, you can also update the Java by typing brew cask reinstall java (or brew cask install java if you didn’t have Java installed through Homebrew/Caskroom before) in your terminal application.
• Download the handout below.

Links to Workshop Materials

• Handout for the presentation
• Slides for the presentation