Professional network data from LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a social networking website for people in professional jobs. It has over 364 million users across the world. Many companies have started using LinkedIn to publish their job requirements and as a medium to showcase their skillset to the world.

In order to access the LinkedIn data, we need to use the package Rlinkedin. Get the latest package from the GitHub repository using the following code:

install_github("mpiccirilli/Rlinkedin")
library(Rlinkedin)

For authentication, we need to have a LinkedIn app. It can be registered at https://www.linkedin.com/developer/apps. Similar to the way we had created an app in Facebook, Instagram, and GitHub, we need to create an app at LinkedIn as well. Once the app is created, it will appear in your developers login.

Please refer to the following screenshot to know what it looks like:

The details of the app, such as the client ID and client secret can be found by clicking and opening the app. After creating...