I recently wanted to build a dataset from content in an RSS feed - the feed of crimes in Newark provided by SpotCrime.  (They have feeds for lots of US cities, but I just wanted Newark.  Please read their Terms of Service before using this co... [Read more...]

I wrote an R script that pulled data from an RSS feed.  The RSS feed updated frequently, so I wanted to be able to schedule the script to run automatically.  After some tinkering, I got it to work by implementing the steps below.  Note t... [Read more...]