Slightly Advanced rvest with Help from htmltools + XML + pipeR
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Hadley Wickham’s post “rvest: easy web scraping with R” introduces the fine new package rvest very well. For those now yearning a slightly more advanced example with a little help from pipeR + htmltools + XML, I thought this might fill your yearn. The code grabs css information running the fancy new site cssstats.com on my blog site. With the background colors, it makes and labels some
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