brewdata

That's great. Really enjoyed reading the post. The footnote about homework procrastination is the best part. Glad to see it brighten your day! I had fun putting it together.

Thanks cyberwulf & wine in coffee cups! @cyberwulf: Never used Shiny, but I know some swear by it. The examples I saw were great. I'll see how far I can go with the R package. Is that how you use shiny? @wine in coffee cups: I'll adjust the data frame returned and see what I can do about the default search. Certainly do not want to miss any records since many people opt not to share their 'metrics'. I'll roll these (and other fixes) into the next CRAN submission. Thanks again for the tips and feedback!

Hi All, I've seen some really nice scripts that scrape the Grad Cafe, but none had all the features I wanted. I wrote some of my own functions and put them into an R package called brewdata. If you're also interested in using R to parse Results Search data, then you can find brewdata on CRAN ( http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/brewdata/). Please email or PM me with any suggestions or bugs you find. I'd welcome the chance to work with anyone interested in making their own improvements. Thanks! NW