Re: [R] How to load data from Statistics Canada

2009-05-20 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Peter Dalgaard wrote: > g...@ucalgary.ca wrote: >> We would like to load data from Statistics Canada >> (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/) using R, >> for example, Employment and unemployment rates. >> It seems to me that the tables are displayed in HTML. >> I was wondering if you know how to load these t

Re: [R] How to load data from Statistics Canada

2009-05-20 Thread Peter Dalgaard
g...@ucalgary.ca wrote: We would like to load data from Statistics Canada (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/) using R, for example, Employment and unemployment rates. It seems to me that the tables are displayed in HTML. I was wondering if you know how to load these tables. Thanks, I suspect the answer

Re: [R] How to load data from Statistics Canada

2009-05-20 Thread guox
Yes, XML can help load HTML tables. As we knew, tables in Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov/) can be displayed in HTML and can also be loaded directly using their urls, for example, ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/time.series/wp/ I was wondering if tables in Statist Canada have such locations so

Re: [R] How to load data from Statistics Canada

2009-05-20 Thread Luc Villandre
g...@ucalgary.ca wrote: We would like to load data from Statistics Canada (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/) using R, for example, Employment and unemployment rates. It seems to me that the tables are displayed in HTML. I was wondering if you know how to load these tables. Thanks, -james _