We got all rows by: library(XML) doc = htmlParse('http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/090520/t090520b1-eng.htm') rows = xpathSApply(doc, '//table/tbody/tr')
The last row is: row_last = rows[15] row_last [[1]] <tr><td id="t1stub17" class="stub1 RGBShade"><b>Unsmoothed composite leading indicator</b></td> <td align="right" headers="hdt1r1c2 t1stub17" class="data"><b>221.8</b></td> <td align="right" headers="hdt1r1c3 t1stub17" class="data"><b>218.4</b></td> <td align="right" headers="hdt1r1c4 t1stub17" class="data"><b>217.1</b></td> <td align="right" headers="hdt1r1c5 t1stub17" class="data"><b>211.2</b></td> <td align="right" headers="hdt1r1c6 t1stub17" class="data"><b>209.4</b></td> <td align="right" headers="hdt1r1c7 t1stub17" class="data"><b>210.5</b></td> <td align="right" headers="hdt1r1c8 t1stub17" class="data"><b>0.5</b></td> </tr> How to find these b entries: Unsmoothed composite leading indicator, 221.8, 218.4, 217.1, 211.2, 209.4, 210.5, 0.5? Thanks, -james ______________________________________________ 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.