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						<h2><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/web-scraping-and-invalid-multibyte-string/" title="Permalink to Web Scraping and “invalid multibyte string”" rel="bookmark">Web Scraping and “invalid multibyte string”</a></h2>
				<div class="meta"><div class="date">August 2, 2016</div>By <a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/author/andrew-collier/" title="Posts by Andrew Collier" rel="author">Andrew Collier</a></div><div class="entry"><p class="excerpt">A couple of my collaborators have had trouble using read_html() from the readr package to access this Wikipedia page. Specifically they have been getting errors like this: Since I couldn’t reproduce these errors on my machine it appeared to be something relating to their particular machine setup. Looking at their locale provided a clue: whereas 
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						<h2><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/web-scraping-with-r/" title="Permalink to Web scraping with R" rel="bookmark">Web scraping with R</a></h2>
				<div class="meta"><div class="date">February 25, 2016</div>By <a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/author/bnosac-belgium-network-of-open-source-analytical-c/" title="Posts by BNOSAC - Belgium Network of Open Source Analytical Consultants" rel="author">BNOSAC - Belgium Network of Open Source Analytical Consultants</a></div><div class="entry"><p class="excerpt">For those of you who are interested in web scraping with R. Enjoy the slides of our presentation on this topic during the last RBelgium meetup. The talk is about using rvest, RSelenium and our own package scrapeit.core which makes scraping deployment, ...</p><p><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/web-scraping-with-r/" class="more-link">Read more &raquo;</a></p></div>

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						<h2><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/web-scraping-with-r-novel-classification-algorithms-on-unbalanced-data/" title="Permalink to Web scraping with R &amp; novel classification algorithms on unbalanced data" rel="bookmark">Web scraping with R &amp; novel classification algorithms on unbalanced data</a></h2>
				<div class="meta"><div class="date">February 23, 2016</div>By <a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/author/bnosac-belgium-network-of-open-source-analytical-c/" title="Posts by BNOSAC - Belgium Network of Open Source Analytical Consultants" rel="author">BNOSAC - Belgium Network of Open Source Analytical Consultants</a></div><div class="entry"><a href='https://www.r-bloggers.com/web-scraping-with-r-novel-classification-algorithms-on-unbalanced-data/' title='Web scraping with R &amp; novel classification algorithms on unbalanced data'><img src="http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/e/9/7/e/600_446999774.jpeg" class="alignleft" alt="Web scraping with R &amp; novel classification algorithms on unbalanced data" width="209" height="110" /></a>

<p class="excerpt">Tomorrow, the next RBelgium meeting will be held at the bnosac offices. This is the schedule.
Interested? Feel free to join the event. More info: http://www.meetup.com/RBelgium/events/228427510/
&bull; 18h00-18h30: enter &amp; meet other R users
&bull; 18h30-19h00: Web scraping with R: live scraping products &amp; prices of www.delhaize.be

&bull; 19h15-20h00: State-of-the-art classification algorithms with unbalanced data. Package unbalanced: Racing...</p><p><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/web-scraping-with-r-novel-classification-algorithms-on-unbalanced-data/" class="more-link">Read more &raquo;</a></p></div>

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						<h2><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/web-scraping-to-item-response-theory-a-college-football-adventure/" title="Permalink to Web Scraping to Item Response Theory &#8211; A College Football Adventure" rel="bookmark">Web Scraping to Item Response Theory &#8211; A College Football Adventure</a></h2>
				<div class="meta"><div class="date">December 4, 2015</div>By <a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/author/educate-r-r/" title="Posts by Educate-R - R" rel="author">Educate-R - R</a></div><div class="entry"><a href='https://www.r-bloggers.com/web-scraping-to-item-response-theory-a-college-football-adventure/' title='Web Scraping to Item Response Theory &#8211; A College Football Adventure'><img src="http://educate-r.org/figs/iowa.png" class="alignleft" alt="Web Scraping to Item Response Theory &#8211; A College Football Adventure" width="209" height="110" /></a>

<p class="excerpt">Web Scraping to Item Response Theory: A College Football Adventure
    Brandon LeBeau, Andrew Zieffler, and Kyle Nickodem
    University of Iowa &amp; University of Minnesota




Background

Began after Tim Brewster was fired
Wanted to try to predict next great coach



Data Available

Data is available at three levels

Coach
Game by Game
Team




Coach

Data

Overall record
Team history

Not Available

Coordinator history




Example Coach Data

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						<h2><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/rvest-easy-web-scraping-with-r/" title="Permalink to rvest: easy web scraping with R" rel="bookmark">rvest: easy web scraping with R</a></h2>
				<div class="meta"><div class="date">November 24, 2014</div>By <a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/author/hadleywickham/" title="Posts by hadleywickham" rel="author">hadleywickham</a></div><div class="entry"><a href='https://www.r-bloggers.com/rvest-easy-web-scraping-with-r/' title='rvest: easy web scraping with R'><img src="https://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/rstudioblog.wordpress.com/1643/" class="alignleft" alt="rvest: easy web scraping with R" width="209" height="110" /></a>

<p class="excerpt">rvest is new package that makes it easy to scrape (or harvest) data from html web pages, by libraries like beautiful soup. It is designed to work with magrittr so that you can express complex operations as elegant pipelines composed of simple, easily understood pieces. Install it with: install.packages("rvest") rvest in action To see rvest <img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=blog.rstudio.org&amp;blog=18843819&amp;post=1643&amp;subd=rstudioblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1"...</p><p><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/rvest-easy-web-scraping-with-r/" class="more-link">Read more &raquo;</a></p></div>

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						<h2><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/migrating-table-oriented-web-scraping-code-to-rvest-wxpath-css-selector-examples/" title="Permalink to Migrating Table-oriented Web Scraping Code to rvest w/XPath &amp; CSS Selector Examples" rel="bookmark">Migrating Table-oriented Web Scraping Code to rvest w/XPath &amp; CSS Selector Examples</a></h2>
				<div class="meta"><div class="date">September 17, 2014</div>By <a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/author/bob-rudis-hrbrmstr/" title="Posts by Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)" rel="author">Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)</a></div><div class="entry"><p class="excerpt">
I was offline much of the day Tuesday and completely missed Hadley Wickham&rsquo;s tweet about the new rvest package:

Are you an #rstats user who misses python's beautiful soup? Please try out rvest (http://t.co/PeiIHr3jDW) and let me know what you&nbsp;think.&mdash; Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) September 12, 2014


My intrepid colleague (@jayjacobs) informed me of this (and didn&rsquo;t...</p><p><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/migrating-table-oriented-web-scraping-code-to-rvest-wxpath-css-selector-examples/" class="more-link">Read more &raquo;</a></p></div>

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						<h2><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/web-scraping-working-with-apis/" title="Permalink to Web Scraping: working with APIs" rel="bookmark">Web Scraping: working with APIs</a></h2>
				<div class="meta"><div class="date">March 12, 2014</div>By <a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/author/rolf-fredheim/" title="Posts by Rolf Fredheim" rel="author">Rolf Fredheim</a></div><div class="entry"><p class="excerpt">APIs present researchers with a diverse set of data sources through a standardised access mechanism: send a pasted together HTTP request, receive JSON or XML in return. Today we tap into a range of APIs to get comfortable sending queries and processing...</p><p><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/web-scraping-working-with-apis/" class="more-link">Read more &raquo;</a></p></div>

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						<h2><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/web-scraping-scaling-up-digital-data-collection/" title="Permalink to Web Scraping: Scaling up Digital Data Collection" rel="bookmark">Web Scraping: Scaling up Digital Data Collection</a></h2>
				<div class="meta"><div class="date">March 5, 2014</div>By <a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/author/rolf-fredheim/" title="Posts by Rolf Fredheim" rel="author">Rolf Fredheim</a></div><div class="entry"><p class="excerpt">The latest slides from web scraping through R: Web scraping for the humanities and social sciencesSlides from the first session hereSlides from the second session hereThis week we look in greater detail at scaling up digital data-collection: coercing s...</p><p><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/web-scraping-scaling-up-digital-data-collection/" class="more-link">Read more &raquo;</a></p></div>

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						<h2><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/web-scraping-part2-digging-deeper/" title="Permalink to Web Scraping part2: Digging deeper" rel="bookmark">Web Scraping part2: Digging deeper</a></h2>
				<div class="meta"><div class="date">February 25, 2014</div>By <a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/author/rolf-fredheim/" title="Posts by Rolf Fredheim" rel="author">Rolf Fredheim</a></div><div class="entry"><p class="excerpt">Slides from the second web scraping through R session: Web scraping for the humanities and social sciencesIn which we make sure we are comfortable with functions, before looking at XPath queries to download data from newspaper articles. Examples includ...</p><p><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/web-scraping-part2-digging-deeper/" class="more-link">Read more &raquo;</a></p></div>

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						<h2><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/a-little-web-scraping-exercise-with-xml-package/" title="Permalink to A Little Web Scraping Exercise with XML-Package" rel="bookmark">A Little Web Scraping Exercise with XML-Package</a></h2>
				<div class="meta"><div class="date">April 5, 2012</div>By <a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/author/kay-cichini/" title="Posts by Kay Cichini" rel="author">Kay Cichini</a></div><div class="entry"><p class="excerpt">Some months ago I posted an example of how to get the links of the contributing blogs on the R-Blogger site. I used readLines() and did some string processing using regular expressions.With package XML this can be drastically shortened - see this:# get...</p><p><a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/a-little-web-scraping-exercise-with-xml-package/" class="more-link">Read more &raquo;</a></p></div>