I am using htmlParse from XML library on a paricular website. Sometimes code fails, sometimes it works, most of the time id doesn't and i cannot see why. The file i am trying to parse is
http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-markets/international-markets/indices/home/sp-500.html?page=0 Sometimes the following code works n<-readHTMLTable(htmlParse(url)) But most of the time it would return the following error coming from htmlParse: Error: failed to load HTTP resource Error is coming from the following line in htmlParse code: ans <- .Call("RS_XML_ParseTree", as.character(file), handlers, as.logical(ignoreBlanks), as.logical(replaceEntities), as.logical(asText), as.logical(trim), as.logical(validate), as.logical(getDTD), as.logical(isURL), as.logical(addAttributeNamespaces), as.logical(useInternalNodes), as.logical(isHTML), as.logical(isSchema), as.logical(fullNamespaceInfo), as.character(encoding), as.logical(useDotNames), xinclude, error, addFinalizer, as.integer(options), PACKAGE = "XML") By the way, readHTMLTable(htmlParse(url)) works fine on other pages, so the problem is somehow related to this page. I am using 64-bit R.15.3 version on windows machine Thanks much Andre [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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