Wikipedia Data Scraping with R: rvest in Action

Scraping list of people on bank notes for exploratory data analysis using rvest functions

Introduction

Wikipedia is a a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, currently having more than 5+ million articles in English. Today, I will work on the data exercise of wikipedia data scraping using rvest, “a new package that makes it easy to scrape (or harvest) data from html web pages…