General Info Extractor

Source: R/general_info.R

Extracts general information on a professor.

general_info(url)

Arguments

url

A character value indicating the URL of the professor's webpage.

Value

A list with three elements

  • name - Complete name of the professor

  • department - The department of the professor

  • university - The university of the professor

Examples

url <- 'https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=2036448'
general_info(url = url)
#> $name
#> [1] "Farzad Sabzikar"
#> 
#> $department
#> [1] "Statistics department"
#> 
#> $university
#> [1] "Iowa State University"
#>