get_prices: Get prices for a given city and page
In SMAC-Group/ptdspkg: Programming tools in data science (University of Lausanne)
Description
Usage
Arguments
Details
Value
Author(s)
Examples
Description
get_prices() scrapes prices elements for a given Swiss city and page
from https://www.comparis.ch web-page and returns a numeric vector of
prices.
Usage
1
get_prices(city, page, validate = TRUE)
Arguments
city
a length one character vector indicating a city.
page
a length one numeric vector indicating a page number.
validate
a length one logical vector indicating whether or not to
validate city and page arguments. Default value: TRUE.
Details
Note that only the latest (no older than one week) items considered.
https://www.comparis.ch url's indexing starts from zero, therefore, the
page number should be subtracted by one.
Value
a numeric vector of prices.
Author(s)
Iegor Rudnytskyi, iegor.rudnytskyi@unil.ch
Examples
1
prices <- get_prices("bern", 3)
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Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) Examples
Description
get_prices() scrapes prices elements for a given Swiss city and page
from https://www.comparis.ch web-page and returns a numeric vector of
prices.
Usage
1 | get_prices(city, page, validate = TRUE)
|
Arguments
city |
a length one character vector indicating a city. |
page |
a length one numeric vector indicating a page number. |
validate |
a length one logical vector indicating whether or not to
validate |
Details
Note that only the latest (no older than one week) items considered. https://www.comparis.ch url's indexing starts from zero, therefore, the page number should be subtracted by one.
Value
a numeric vector of prices.
Author(s)
Iegor Rudnytskyi, iegor.rudnytskyi@unil.ch
Examples
1 | prices <- get_prices("bern", 3)
|
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