Re: [R] Downloading a html table

2012-10-23 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
Rather than requiring manual tweaking, library(XML) readHTMLTable("http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/populations/usapoptable.htm";) will do the job for us. D. On 10/22/12 8:17 PM, David Arnold wrote: > All, > > A friend of mine would like to use this data with his stats class: > > http://www.

Re: [R] Downloading a html table

2012-10-22 Thread David L Carlson
avid L Carlson Associate Professor of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4352 > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Rolf Turner > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 10:47 PM &g

Re: [R] Downloading a html table

2012-10-22 Thread Rolf Turner
On 23/10/12 16:17, David Arnold wrote: All, A friend of mine would like to use this data with his stats class: http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/populations/usapoptable.htm I can't figure a way of capturing this data due to the mysql commands in the source code. Any thoughts? Copying and pas