Introduction to afnews

There are three main families of functions in afnews:

1. General tools: these functions allow you to check the existence of a web url in https, htpp or not. They also allow to set tables, vector, matrices of different sizes (columns).

2. Function of collecting articles on many press.

3. Main functions of collecting news from articles collected or urls provided.

General tools

• You can verify the existence of a URL with url_exists():

url_exists("https://armelsoubeiga.github.io/afnews/index.html",non_2xx_return_value = FALSE, quiet = FALSE)
#> [1] TRUE

This returns TRUE if the url in parameter exists. The function also checked the HTTP code is not in the range 2xx, the default is to return <>.

• You can also merge r objects (chars, int, data.frame, …) of different sizes through the cbind_na () function:

Note that the plus or minus lines are replaced by NA.