Some R scripts to begin with web scrapping. 1) imdb250.R contains basic scripts to fetch top 250 movie list and corresponding details. 2) amazonsearch.R contains advanced scrapping with R for products on amazon's website based on the search term.
From using xpdf, rvest, and quanteda on United Nations Digital Library search results to applying dictionaries to speeches in United Nations meeting records
Demo on applying the concept of network analysis on a network of connected railway stations, attempting to identify the important stations (nodes) in this network. Web scraping techniques using rvest package is also briefly discussed upon.
The "rvest" package is a powerful and convenient tool for systematically browsing the web and obtaining data with R. Here are some examples of how to use the package.