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Olgun Aydin
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Olgun Aydin is a PhD candidate at the Department of Statistics at Mimar Sinan University, and is studying deep learning for his thesis. He also works as a data scientist. Olgun is familiar with big data technologies, such as Hadoop and Spark, and is a very big fan of R. He has already published academic papers about the application of statistics, machine learning, and deep learning. He loves statistics, and loves to investigate new methods and share his experience with other people.
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Introducing rvest

Most of the data on the web is in large scale as HTML. It is often not available in a form that is useful for analysis, such as hierarchical or tree-based:

<html>
<head>
<title>Looks like a tittle</title>
</head>
<body>
<p align="center">What's up ?</p>
</body>
</html>

rvest is a very useful R library that helps you collect information from web pages. It is designed to work with magrittr, inspired by libraries such as BeatifulSoup.

To start the web scraping process, you first need to master the R bases. In this section, we will perform web scraping step by step, using the rvest R package written by Hadley Wickham.

For more information about the rvesr package, visit the following URLs.CRAN Page: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rvest/index.html rvest on github: https://github.com...
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Olgun Aydin

Olgun Aydin is a PhD candidate at the Department of Statistics at Mimar Sinan University, and is studying deep learning for his thesis. He also works as a data scientist. Olgun is familiar with big data technologies, such as Hadoop and Spark, and is a very big fan of R. He has already published academic papers about the application of statistics, machine learning, and deep learning. He loves statistics, and loves to investigate new methods and share his experience with other people.
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