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Error in QS scraping if metrics blank

Errors occurring in QS scrape for some combinations of subjects and years.

Appears to be occurring where some Ranking Indicators rankings show as '-' on QS world rankings website.

Example from 2018 Arts and Design (see ranking on website https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2018/art-design)

ur_scrape_qs(2018, ranking="Art.Design")

Returns:

Error: Unknown columns `2626624`, `2626624_rank_d`, `2626624_rank`, `2626625`, `2626625_rank_d` and `2626625_rank` 
Call `rlang::last_error()` to see a backtrace

Error appears to occur because data returned by JSON is missing above columns so code that links data and column names fails (further investigation required).

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