Automated Data Collection with R: A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining

Automated Data Collection with R: A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-452

  Munzert, Simon ^a   Rubba, Christian ^b   Meißner, Peter ^a   Nyhuis, Dominic ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

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