This tutorial introduces some common import functions, illustrates basic web scraping with rvest, shows how to create nice tables with gt, and how to combine graphs with patchwork.

By the end of the tutorial, you should be able to:

• Import data into R that is stored in a common file type (.csv, .txt, excel, etc) or in a Google spreadsheet.

• Find resources to read in data that is in a format other than one of the more common formats.

• Use rvest() functions to scrape data from a simple webpage and recognize when scraping the data will require more advanced tools.

• Create nice tables with the gt functions.

• Use patchwork to display related plots together nicely.

importing, scraping, etc. tutorial