On 19 Mar 2014, at 11:10 , Mehrshad Koleini <mehrkole...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I need to import some tables from a web page (https) into R and analyze > them through the "readHTMLTable" function. After loading XML package, the > following commands are run: > >> url <- "https://.../TopUp/CdrReport.aspx?lang=DK" >> mydata <- readHTMLTable(url) > > and there is a warning: > XML content does not seem to be XML: ' https:// > .../TopUp/CdrReport.aspx?lang=DK' > > Would you do me a favor on this issue, please?
Maybe, but you're not giving us much to go on... If the page really isn't HTML or XML, then readHTMLTable() is not going to help you. So perhaps first see what is in there; either by opening the URL in a browser and using View Source, or by using con <- url(url) ## you might want to reconsider the naming... readLines(con) close(con) -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.