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Hands-On Data Science with R

You're reading from   Hands-On Data Science with R Techniques to perform data manipulation and mining to build smart analytical models using R

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789139402
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nataraj Dasgupta Nataraj Dasgupta
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Vitor Bianchi Lanzetta Vitor Bianchi Lanzetta
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Ricardo Anjoleto Farias Ricardo Anjoleto Farias
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Data Science and R FREE CHAPTER 2. Descriptive and Inferential Statistics 3. Data Wrangling with R 4. KDD, Data Mining, and Text Mining 5. Data Analysis with R 6. Machine Learning with R 7. Forecasting and ML App with R 8. Neural Networks and Deep Learning 9. Markovian in R 10. Visualizing Data 11. Going to Production with R 12. Large Scale Data Analytics with Hadoop 13. R on Cloud 14. The Road Ahead 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Scraping a dwarf name

As silly as it is, I am not moving forward until I have a dwarf name of my own. I am not positive about getting this one directly from the web browser, either. We can do this using the R console alone. This section shows how. The first thing to do is find a website that will generate dwarf names for us. I picked the following one (http://www.rdinn.com/generators/1/dwarven_name_generator.php?):

Figure 4.1: The Red Dragon Inn's dwarven name generator

The Red Dragon Inn will generate dwarf names, given four parameters:

  • Name, surname, or both
  • Total number of names to generate
  • Gender
  • Realistic or fantasy

Web pages usually communicate with users through a well-known protocol (HTTP). All we have to do is to open browser developer tools while requesting a name, so we can understand what kind of request is done and how. For Windows users, developer tools for...

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