how to read a web page and extract an html table?
Hi!
On 06-May-2003 Adi Humbert wrote:
Hello all, I want to read a table from a given web page. If I do something like
str="http://www...." # this is the web address aux1 <- url(str,open="rt")# open connection aux2 <- readLines(aux1) # read web page
aux2 contains the html file. I want to extract the table from the html file. Is there a function html2R, the opposite of R2html? How should I do this?
I think the easiest way is using perl as preprocessor: http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Perl/DataMining/page3.html hope this helps, dst
Thanks, Adrian
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