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Extract the name of all UN member states from the official website of the United Nations in R #rstats
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UN_country_names.R
library("rvest")
read_html(x = "http://www.un.org/en/member-states/") %>%
html_nodes(xpath = "//span[@class='member-state-name']") %>%
html_text()
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