OUTDATED! Please see the update HERE!...When reading Scott Chemberlain's last post about web-scraping I felt it was time to pick up and complete an idea that I was brooding over for some time now:When a scientist aims out for a new project the firs...

In R it's quite easy to pull out anything from a webpage and I'll show a little exercise in doing so.Here I retrieve all blog addresses from R-bloggers by the function readLines() and some subsequent data processing.Read more »