Description:

Expand your R skills beyond the basics at these one-hour remote lessons. You do not need to attend each session to participate - each week is a new lesson.

Each one-hour session meets via Zoom on Tuesdays at noon CDT.  

Scraping with Rvest (and SelectorGadget) 
Rvest is a user-friendly package for web scraping. In combination with SelectorGadget (an extension that can be added to your Chrome browser), Rvest becomes a powerful tool for scraping. This workshop introduces users to the Rvest library and the SelectorGadget browser extension. It focuses on how to deploy these tools together to scrape websites. 
 
Prerequisites:  Participants should be familiar with R at an introductory level.