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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

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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
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