Hello, You are right, the "which" option avoid the selection in my example.
Also, I think ?"[[" might be helpful for you. Regards. Pascal On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Bill <william...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. I found that this works: > tt=readHTMLTable(url,header=TRUE, as.data.frame=TRUE,which=c(3)) > tt[1,] > I thought I tried what you suggested but it was not working but I guess not. > So all my errors revolved around the fact that > mylist[] will return a slice of a list and hence still a list but > mylist[[]] returns the data structure of that particular element? > > Thanks. > > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Pascal Oettli <kri...@ymail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Your example leads to error. Anyway: >> >> library(XML) >> oneurl="http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/FUKUSHIMA/11-2012/475950.htm" >> temp.tables=readHTMLTable(oneurl, header=TRUE) >> >> temp.tables <- temp.tables[[3]] >> temp.tables <- temp.tables[1:30,] >> >> HTH, >> Pascal >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Bill <william...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi. I ran some code and I am trying to access the table with the data in >> > it. I want in particular to delete the 31st row for example >> > Monthly means and totals: <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> >> > <NA> >> > <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> >> > or remove the names of the columns (or change them). Day T TM Tm >> > SLP H PP VV V VM VG RA SN TS >> > >> > I tried all sorts of things but they don't give me access: >> > >> > library(XML) >> > oneurl="http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/FUKUSHIMA/11-2012/475950.htm" >> > allFuku=data.frame() #need to initialize it with column names >> > temp.tables=readHTMLTable(url) >> > >> > temp.tables[3][2] >> > temp.tables[3] >> > temp.tables[3][3] >> > temp.tables[3][2,] >> > str(temp.tables[3]) >> > temp.tables[3][2,2] >> > dim(temp.tables[3]) >> > temp.tables[3]$SN >> > temp.tables[3][1] >> > temp.tables[3][1][2,] >> > str(temp.tables[3][1]) >> > temp.tables[3][1]$SN >> > temp.tables[3][1][1][2,] >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> > PLEASE do read the posting guide >> > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> >> >> -- >> Pascal Oettli >> Project Scientist >> JAMSTEC >> Yokohama, Japan > > -- Pascal Oettli Project Scientist JAMSTEC Yokohama, Japan ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.