As the amount of information on the internet is increasing exponentially, the use of data extraction methods is also on the rise. Web scraping is one of the most popular, reliable, and efficient means of data extraction. It is done both manually and using automated systems, with the automated method being the most popular and widely used.
Programming language is a must to implement automatic data extraction on web scrapers. So today, we shall discuss web scraping in R, as R is the best and most widely used language for data scraping. Now let’s begin understanding what web scraping is: