Looking to Learn Web Scraping in R โ€“ Any Tips or Best Practices to Get Started?

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Hey! Welcome to the world of web scraping in R! ๐ŸŽ‰

Iโ€™d say start with rvestโ€”itโ€™s super beginner-friendly and great for static websites. For dynamic sites, you might need RSelenium or puppeteer (via V8 package).

To avoid getting blocked, use polite package to respect robots.txt and add delays between requests.

For cleaning data, dplyr and tidyr are your best friends.

Check out this tutorial: [R-bloggers web scraping guide](https://www.r-bloggers.com/). Itโ€™s gold!

Good luck!

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