October 2017
Beginner to intermediate
236 pages
7h 38m
English
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Extracting text data from an HTML page using the XML library
The XML library is another R library for extracting text data from the HTML web page. In the previous recipes, you saw how to extract text from a web page using readLines() and then using the rvest library. In this recipe, you will go through the functions of the XML library to extract the same data.