Re: [R] extract tables as data.frames from HTML source

If the question is specific to getting stock data from google finance then check out getSymbols.google in the quantmod package. Also note that there exists an r-sig-finance list for questions pertaining to R and finance. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Yihui Xie wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder whether

Re: [R] extract tables as data.frames from HTML source

Yihui Xie wrote: > > I wonder whether there is any convenient function (or package) to > extract tables from a HTML page? e.g. from > http://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=SHE:002251 > Try a search on R (I prefer markmail search)

[R] extract tables as data.frames from HTML source

Hi, I wonder whether there is any convenient function (or package) to extract tables from a HTML page? e.g. from http://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=SHE:002251 I know we can readLines('URL'), gsub('...', '...', source), ... and at last get the numbers; I'm writing to ask whether someone ha