Byte-size: An Ode to Web Scraping with R

Last week I needed to pull some data from a website. I was building out a data pipeline to generate the end-of-season awards for Little Athletics, but I ran into a problem. Like dependable friend, R came to the rescue with a simple, elegant solution. This post is a ‘byte-size’ ode to this dependable friend. Beauty and Terseness I’ll get to the challenge I ran into shortly, but first we’ll take a…