What is RSelenium?

RSelenium is an R Programming Langauge package that provides developers with a way to automate web tasks, parse web pages, fill out forms, etc. It supports all your favorite browsers like Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Bing, Firefox, and many more and it is supported by a wide range of OS such as Windows, Mac, and Linux. It is very popular in its niche as it is simple to use yet very powerful.

Waiting for page to load in RSelenium in R

In this article, we will discuss how to wait for a page to load in RSelenium. This is a very important functionality that we have to include in our scrapping codes so, that the page gets loaded completely before we scrape the desired part of the code.

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What is RSelenium?

RSelenium is an R Programming Langauge package that provides developers with a way to automate web tasks, parse web pages, fill out forms, etc. It supports all your favorite browsers like Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Bing, Firefox, and many more and it is supported by a wide range of OS such as Windows, Mac, and Linux. It is very popular in its niche as it is simple to use yet very powerful....

What problem are we facing?

The problem we are facing is that whenever a page loads we immediately try to look for an element let’s say an input field for a discussion matter. But when a page loads it takes some time for the input field to be clickable but we still look for it, which throws an error and stops your script as the code was looking for something which did not exist (yet)....

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