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XPath scraping in R
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| library("XML") | |
| library("RCurl") | |
| url = "http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/" | |
| xpath = '//*[@id="entry-230579"]/div/text()' | |
| page = getURL(url) | |
| tree = htmlTreeParse(page, useInternalNodes=TRUE) | |
| text = getNodeSet(tree, '//*[@id="entry-230579"]/div') | |
| text |
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