How to Scrape Japanese Text Using the rvest Package
byGuangming Lang
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The rvest package is yet another
powerful tool developed by Hadley. It makes web scraping super easy. For example, say I want to scrape this page from the Bank of Japan. I can just use the read_html() function without specifying
the encoding. I think under the hood, it guesses the encoding.