Appendix C — Updates

Published

November 6, 2024

C.1 October 2024

  • Update to Web scraping to use {rvest} read_html_live().

C.2 August 2024

  • Extensive update to section 7 on webscraping to account for changes in IMDB website.
    • Added new example with Selector Gadget with UN Aid organizations
    • Changed all the IMDB sections to use Developer Tools with new CSS selectors
    • Added section on using {chromote} pacage to get scroll the IMDB pages
    • Adjusted the Taylor Swift example to match new column headers on Wikipedia.

C.3 July 2024

  • Update appendix A for installing software
  • Update appendix B to eliminate PATs for GitHub and include 2 factor authentication and GCM for both Mac and Windows.

C.4 May 2024

  • Section 7.8: Update from the {tabuizer} package for scraping PDFs to its replacement, the {tabulapdf} package.