Research note: Scraping financial data from the web using the R language

Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 169-181

  Krotov, Vlad ^a   Tennyson, Matthew ^a  

^a MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CSS; HTML; R; RStudio; Web scraping; XBRL; XML

Indexed keywords

EID: 85051399458     PISSN: 15541908     EISSN: 15587940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/jeta-52063     Document Type: Article

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