[R] read htm table error

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

Ditto, Windows 7.

 > library(XML)
 > theurl <- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team"
 > tables <- readHTMLTable(theurl)
 >
 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 LC_CTYPE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Portuguese_Portugal.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods base

other attached packages:
[1] XML_3.9-4.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] fortunes_1.4-2

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas
Em 09-08-2012 15:02, John Kane escreveu:
> Works fine for me.
>
>   sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
> Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>
> locale:
>   [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>   [3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>   [5] LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>   [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
>   [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> [8] base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] XML_3.9-4          directlabels_2.6   stringr_0.6.1      RColorBrewer_1.0-5
> [5] reshape2_1.2.1     scales_0.2.1       plyr_1.7.1         gridExtra_0.9
> [9] ggplot2_0.9.1
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] colorspace_1.1-1 dichromat_1.2-4  digest_0.5.2     labeling_0.1
> [5] MASS_7.3-20      memoise_0.1      munsell_0.3      proto_0.3-9.2
> [9] tools_2.15.1
> 1>
>
>
> John Kane
> Kingston ON Canada
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: kiung.lay at sensis.com.au
>> Sent: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 06:55:17 +0000
>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: [R] read htm table error
>>
>>
>> Hi I am using Version R 2.15 and I haven't been able read html table.
>> Following is my code and error message.
>> Error in htmlParse(doc) :
>>    error in creating parser for
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team
>>
>> theurl <- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team"
>>   tables <- readHTMLTable(theurl)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kiung
>>
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