On 7/13/05, Soren Wilkening [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear all
the regular XML package does not work correctly with the R 2.0.1 windows
version.
Can anybody indicate a suitable alternative ?
I need to dynamically read, parse and process a HTML table in R that is
available at a certain url.
Is this a one-time transfer or does the information change and you have
to do it completely automatically on a repeated basis?
In the first case, select the table, copy it to the clipboard, paste it into
Excel and then transfer it to R from there.
In the second case you could use RDCOMClient or rcom packages to
get it via Internet Explorer -- although that would be more involved and,
in particular, requires that you learn the IE COM interface. There may
or may not be some discussion in the rcom list archives:
http://mailman.csd.univie.ac.at/pipermail/rcom-l/
on this approach.
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