The steps to implement this recipe are as follows:

1. Load the rvest library. This is a specialized library for reading and processing HTML web pages.
2. Create an object containing the URL as a character string.
3. Call the read_html() function and pass the object containing the URL.

The code for the preceding steps is as follows:

        library(rvest)
        sourceURL <-
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_with_Big_Data_in_R"
        htmlTextData <- read_html(sourceURL)