data scraping

Screen Scraping, Mapping in R

February 19, 2011 | Earl Glynn

by Earl F. Glynn, Kansas Watchdog The PowerPoint slides below give an overview of screen scraping and mapping in R. Details with comments about many of the R statements can be found in these articles: Simple R Screen Scraping Example R Screen Scraping:... [Read more...]

R Reshape Examples

February 19, 2011 | Earl Glynn

by Earl F. Glynn, Kansas Watchdog The goal of this article is to describe how to “reshape” data from screen scraping to make analysis with existing tools easier. Background The Kansas Secretary of State published Nov. 2010 election results ... [Read more...]

Simple R Screen Scraping Example

February 18, 2011 | Earl Glynn

by Earl F. Glynn, Kansas Watchdog The goal of this exercise is to show how to “screen scrape” data from an online web page using R. Additional articles will extend this example to scrape data from 105 Kansas county pages to form a statewide... [Read more...]

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