October 2017
Beginner to intermediate
236 pages
7h 38m
English
Content preview from Modern R Programming Cookbook
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Getting ready
In this recipe, to extract unstructured text data from a plain web page, the following web page will be used:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_with_Big_Data_in_R
This page contains a brief description of programming with big data in R. The objective is to read the web page using R and store the text data into an R object. Here is a partial screenshot of the page: