Automated data collection with R : a practical guide to web scraping and text mining /

Munzert, Simon,

Automated data collection with R : a practical guide to web scraping and text mining / Simon Munzert, Christian Rubba, Peter Meissiner, Dominic Nyhuis. - xxii, 452 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A hands on guide to web scraping and text mining for both beginners and experienced users of R. This title introduces fundamental concepts of the main architecture of the web and databases and covers HTTP, HTML, XML, JSON, SQL, and provides basic techniques to query web documents and data sets (XPath and regular expressions).




Electronic reproduction.
Askews and Holts.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.

9781118834787 (ebook)


Data mining.
Automatic data collection systems.
Social sciences--Research--Data processing.
R (Computer program language)
Mathematics
Mathematics
Data mining