In the age of the internet revolution, web pages are the most popular source of text data. You can get newspaper articles, blog posts, personal biography web pages, and many more. Articles in Wikipedia are another source of plain text data through Wikipedia web pages. In this recipe, you will learn how to extract text data from a plain web page.
Extracting unstructured text data from a plain web page
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In this recipe, to extract unstructured text data from a plain web page, the following web page will be used:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_with_Big_Data_in_R
This page contains a brief description of programming with big data in R. The objective is to read the web page using R and store the text data...