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hadley on Nov 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rvest: Easy web scraping with R

What are you looking for? rvest should support all the navigation tools from beautiful soup/nokogiri (unless I've missed something), but currently doesn't have any support for modifying the document (in which case I think your only option is the XML package).

danso on Nov 24, 2014 [–]

No you didn't miss anything...I meant if there were standalone parsers for R...Mechanize uses Nokogiri/Soup as a dependency.

hadley on Nov 24, 2014 | [–]

Not that I'm aware of - rvest uses the R package XML which uses the C library libxml.

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