References and Ressources
Books
Web scraping with R
- Automated Data Collection from the Web with R, by Munzer, Rubba, Meisner & Nyhulis. Wiley.
Data technologies including XML
- Introduction to Data Technologies. Paul Murrell.
- XML and Web Technologies for Data Science with R. Deborah Nolan & Duncan Temple Lang. UseR!
Web scraping in general
Courses
Web documents/bookdown/etc
- Web scraping with R by Steve Pittard
- Introduction to Computing with Data by Gaston Sánchez
- Crime by the numbers with R, part IV is on Web Scraping.
Tutorials/Blog posts/etc
- Web scraping for the humanities and social sciences, Rolf Fredheim and Aiora Zabala.
- R-bloggers posts on Web Scraping
- And see also CRAN Web Services and Technologies task view