how to read a web page and extract an html table?

On Tue, 6 May 2003 12:01:42 -0400, you wrote in message
<07AC3439-7FDC-11D7-90EC-00306579408C at syr.edu>:

Speaking of perl - Does anyone know if there is a standard way to use 
perl scripts from within R - I guess one can call them as one does from 
the commandline.  Is it possible to program R modules in perl (or would 
the cpan dependancies kill us?)

I don't know the answers to those questions, but wanted to point out
that most users of R on Windows won't have Perl installed, so if you
do this, you should at least give them instructions on where to find
it (like those in the readme.packages, "available via
http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/.").

Duncan Murdoch