In what is rapidly becoming a series — cool things you can do with R in a tweet — Julia Silge demonstrates scraping the list of members of the US house of representatives on Wikipedia in just 5 R statements: library(rvest) library(tidyverse) h % html_node("#mw-content-text > div > table:nth-child(18)") %>% html_table() reps % as_tibble() pic.twitter.com/25ANm7BHkj — Julia Silge (@juliasilge) January 12, 2018 Since Twitter munges the URL in the third line when you cut-and-paste, here's a plain-text version of Julia's code: library(rvest) library(tidyverse) h % html_node("#mw-content-text > div...