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...