tm.plugin.webmining (version 0.9)

tm.plugin.webmining-package: Retrieve structured, textual data from various web sources

Description

tm.plugin.webmining facilitates the retrieval of textual data through various web feed formats like XML and JSON. Also direct retrieval from HTML is supported. As most (news) feeds only incorporate small fractions of the original text tm.plugin.webmining goes a step further and even retrieves and extracts the text of the original text source. Generally, the retrieval procedure can be described as a two--step process: [object Object],[object Object]

See Also

WebCorpus GoogleBlogSearchSource GoogleFinanceSource GoogleNewsSource NYTimesSource ReutersNewsSource TwitterSource YahooFinanceSource YahooInplaySource YahooNewsSource GoogleReaderSource

Examples

googleblogsearch <- WebCorpus(GoogleBlogSearchSource("Microsoft"))
googlefinance <- WebCorpus(GoogleFinanceSource("NASDAQ:MSFT"))
googlenews <- WebCorpus(GoogleNewsSource("Microsoft"))
nytimes <- WebCorpus(NYTimesSource("Microsoft", appid = nytimes_appid))
reutersnews <- WebCorpus(ReutersNewsSource("businessNews"))
twitter <- WebCorpus(TwitterSource("Microsoft"))
yahoofinance <- WebCorpus(YahooFinanceSource("MSFT"))
yahooinplay <- WebCorpus(YahooInplaySource())
yahoonews <- WebCorpus(YahooNewsSource("Microsoft"))

token <- auth.google.reader()
feed <- "http://feeds.feedburner.com/RBloggers"
test <- WebCorpus(GoogleReaderSource(feed, auth.token = token, params = list(n = 100)))