{"id":15995,"date":"2022-10-13T20:25:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-improving-my-r-code-advice-wanted-on-better-way-of-coding-closed\/"},"modified":"2022-10-13T20:25:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:55:26","slug":"solved-improving-my-r-code-advice-wanted-on-better-way-of-coding-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-improving-my-r-code-advice-wanted-on-better-way-of-coding-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Improving my R code &#8211; advice wanted on better way of coding? [closed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-39686263\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"39686263\" data-parentid=\"39685989\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>You could try using <code>purrr<\/code> instead of the loop as follows:<\/p>\n<pre><code>require(rvest)\nrequire(purrr)\nrequire(tibble)\n\nURLs %&gt;% \n  map(read_html) %&gt;% \n  map(html_nodes, \"#yw1 .spielprofil_tooltip\") %&gt;% \n  map_df(~tibble(Player = html_text(.), P_URL = html_attr(., \"href\")))\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Timing:<\/p>\n<pre><code>   user  system elapsed \n  2.939   2.746   5.699 \n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The step that take the most time is the crawling via <code>map(read_html)<\/code>.<br \/>\nTo paralyze that you can use e.g. the parallel backend of <code>plyr<\/code> as follows:<\/p>\n<pre><code>require(httr)\ndoMC::registerDoMC(cores=3) # cores depending on your system\nplyr::llply(URLs, GET, .parallel = TRUE) %&gt;% \n  map(read_html) %&gt;% \n  map(html_nodes, \"#yw1 .spielprofil_tooltip\") %&gt;% \n  map_df(~tibble(Player = html_text(.), P_URL = html_attr(., \"href\")))\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Somehow my Rstudio crashed using <code>plyr::llply(URLs, read_html, .parallel = TRUE)<\/code> thats why i use the underlying <code>httr::GET<\/code> and parse the result in the next step via <code>map(read_html)<\/code>. So the scraping is done in parallel but the parsing of the response is done sequentially.<\/p>\n<p>Timing:<\/p>\n<pre><code>   user  system elapsed \n  2.505   0.337   2.940 \n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In both cases the result looks as follows:<\/p>\n<pre><code># A tibble: 1,036 \u00d7 2\n          Player                                P_URL\n           &lt;chr&gt;                                &lt;chr&gt;\n1   David de Gea   \/david-de-gea\/profil\/spieler\/59377\n2      D. de Gea   \/david-de-gea\/profil\/spieler\/59377\n3  Sergio Romero  \/sergio-romero\/profil\/spieler\/30690\n4      S. Romero  \/sergio-romero\/profil\/spieler\/30690\n5  Sam Johnstone \/sam-johnstone\/profil\/spieler\/110864\n6   S. Johnstone \/sam-johnstone\/profil\/spieler\/110864\n7    Daley Blind    \/daley-blind\/profil\/spieler\/12282\n8       D. Blind    \/daley-blind\/profil\/spieler\/12282\n9    Eric Bailly   \/eric-bailly\/profil\/spieler\/286384\n10     E. 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