ritaran/web-scraping-r

This is a web scraping task for a master level class 'Statistical Computing' at Duke

Web Scraping in R

The task is to test if it is true that La Quinta and Denny's are always near each other.

5 parts for this task

La Quinta:

• get_lq.R: web scrape all the hotel html information in us
• parse_lq.R: create a data table to store the hotel information(including longitude and latitude) through each hotel html

Denny's:

• get_dennys.R: web scrape all the denny's html information in us
• parse_dennys.R: create a data table to store denny's information(including longitude and latitude) through each denny's html

Analysis:

• hw4.Rmd: calculate the distances and dispaly the results in a map