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R Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   R Web Scraping Quick Start Guide Techniques and tools to crawl and scrape data from websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138733
Length 114 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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RSelenium

RSelenium is designed to make it easy to connect to a Selenium server or a remote Selenium server. RSelenium allows connection from the R environment to the Selenium Webdriver API. Selenium is a project that focuses on automating web browsers.

Selenium Server is an independent java program that allows you to run HTML test suites in different browsers.

If you want to navigate your website using a browser on the same machine that RSelenium is running on, you need to run Selenium Server on that machine.

RSelenium is one of the most useful poles of R. With just a few lines of code, you can automate web pages and create scraping systems. This is useful for testing web applications as well as for collecting data from multiple web pages.

If you are not familiar with this R library, it will be useful to read the guide created for beginners.

RSelenium is an R library that allows...

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