R Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

Playing with data

We have two different datasets. We already have collected categories and article counts for each categories, and we have already collected the name, date, and comment counts articles, which were written recently.

Let's start by playing data regarding categories and the article counts for each category:

• We should implement basic text manipulation methods to have counts in a more proper format. Because counts look as shown here, we have to apply basic text to get rid of the characters:

      > count           [,1]       [1,] " (11)\n"      [2,] " (3)\n"       [3,] " (1)\n"       [4,] " (2)\n"       [5,] " (4)\n"       [6,] " (1)\n"       [7,] " (7)\n"       [8,] " (24)\n"      [9,] " (1)\n"       [10,] " (1)\n"       [11,] " (3)\n"       [12,] " (12)\n"      [13,] " (2)\n"       [14,] " (1)\n"  [15,] " (1)\n" ...