When readHTMLTable() or more generally the HTML/XML parser fails to retrieve
a URL, I suggest you use check to see if a different approach will work.
You can use the download.file() function or readLines(url()) or
getURLContent() from the RCurl package to get the content of the URL.
The you can p
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.htm
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