Read in HTML
Take a look at the following excerpt from a website:
Web Scraping is cool
It involves writing code – be it R or Python.
DataCamp has courses on it.
The corresponding HTML is provided to you in the
html_excerpt_raw variable.
In this exercise you'll use rvest to read it into R, so you can work with it.
As you are working with the rvest package during this entire course, it will always have been preloaded for you with the library(rvest) command.
This exercise is part of the course
Web Scraping in R
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
html_excerpt_raw <- '
Web scraping is cool
It involves writing code – be it R or Python.
DataCamp
has courses on it.
'
# Turn the raw excerpt into an HTML document R understands
html_excerpt <- ___
html_excerpt