RStudio for R Statistical Computing Cookbook

Chapter 1. Acquiring Data for Your Project

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Acquiring data from the Web—web scraping tasks
• Accessing an API with R
• Getting data from Twitter with the twitteR package
• Getting data from Facebook with the Rfacebook package
• Getting data from Google Analytics
• Loading your data into R with rio packages
• Converting file formats using the rio package

Introduction

The American statistician Edward Deming once said:

"Without data you are just another man with an opinion."

I think this great quote is enough to highlight the importance of the data acquisition phase of every data analysis project. This phase is exactly where we are going to start from. This chapter will give you tools for scraping the Web, accessing ...