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Acquire data from websites and APIs using R

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Online Data with R

This lesson will teach you the basics of how data are stored on the web, and how to get data from the web with R using:

  • web scraping
  • APIs
  • specialized R packages

Instructor Notes

This is very similar to the python online data lesson. It may be possible to skip the first of the three sections (scraping and manually parsing HTML), since students may find the other two (accessing data from APIs with and without specialized R packages) more useful.

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