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title: "Scraping weather data from the internet with R and the tidyverse (CC231)"
blurb: "What's the weather like where you live?"
author: "PD Schloss"
date: 2022-07-18 11:00
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R has powerful but simple tools that allow for easy scraping of the internet. In this episode, Pat will show you how to track down local weather data from the NOAA website and make it accessible within your R session in RStudio using tools from the tidyverse including `dplyr`, `lubridate`, and more.


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## Code

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