We’ll look at the feed from The R Journal. > nrow(rbloggers$items)Ģ Map the Life Expectancy in United States with data from Wikipedia 19:48:53ģ Creating Annotated Data Frames from GEO with the GEOquery package 19:35:45Ītom feeds are definitely in the minority, but this format is still used by a number of popular sites. There are often more fields available for each entry, but these three are generally present. For each entry the title, publication date and link are captured.
The actual entries on the feed are captured in the items element. There are three metadata elements pertaining to the feed. We’ll look at the feed exposed by R-bloggers. The vast majority of blogs provide an RSS feed. > devtools::install_github("DataWookie/feedeR")Īlthough Atom is supposed to be a better format from a technical perspective, RSS is relatively ubiquitous. The package is currently hosted on GitHub.
You can find the fruits of my morning’s labour here. So this presented the opportunity for a bit of DIY. I was somewhat surprised to find that no package currently exists on CRAN to handle this task. I’m working on a project in which I need to systematically parse a number of RSS and Atom feeds from within R.
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