RWebData：可编程Web的高级接口
RWebData: A High-Level Interface to the Programmable Web
摘要：
可编程网络的兴起为经验驱动的社会科学提供了新的机会。然而，从可编程网络访问、汇编和准备数据用于统计分析，可能会给实际研究人员带来大量的前期费用。R-package RWebData提供了一个高级框架，可以轻松地从可编程Web收集数据，其格式可以直接用于R（R Core Team 2013）中的统计分析，而无需担心数据的初始格式和嵌套结构。它是专门为没有Web技术经验的用户而开发的，仅将R用作统计软件。该软件包的核心思想和方法贡献是解析Web数据，并将其与通用算法（独立于初始数据结构）映射到一个平面表格式的表示。本文概述了R用户的高级功能，解释了该包的基本架构，并说明了实现的数据映射算法。
英文摘要：
The rise of the programmable web offers new opportunities for the empirically driven social sciences. The access, compilation and preparation of data from the programmable web for statistical analysis can, however, involve substantial up-front costs for the practical researcher. The R-package RWebData provides a high-level framework that allows data to be easily collected from the programmable web in a format that can directly be used for statistical analysis in R (R Core Team 2013) without bothering about the data's initial format and nesting structure. It was developed specifically for users who have no experience with web technologies and merely use R as a statistical software. The core idea and methodological contribution of the package are the disentangling of parsing web data and mapping them with a generic algorithm (independent of the initial data structure) to a flat table-like representation. This paper provides an overview of the high-level functions for R-users, explains the basic architecture of the package, and illustrates the implemented data mapping algorithm.
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