Publications by Rolf Fredheim

Better handling of JSON data in R?

What is the best way to read data in JSON format into R? Though really common for almost all modern online applications, JSON is not every R user’s best friend. After seeing the slides for my Web Scraping course, in which I somewhat arbitrarily veered between using the packages rjson and RJSONIO, the creator of a third JSON package, Jeroen Oo...

3442 sym R (2713 sym/5 pcs)

Digital Data Collection course

Another year, another web scraping course. Taught through SSRMC at the University of Cambridge. Below are slides from all three sessions.In the course I tried to achieve the following:– Show how to connect R to resources online– Use loops and functions to iteratively access online content– How to work with APIs– How to harvest...

1037 sym