read_html: Read in .html Content

In textreadr: Read Text Documents into R

Description

Read in the content from a .html file. This is generalized, reading in all body text. For finer control the user should utilize the xml2 and rvest packages.

Usage

read_html(file, skip = 0, remove.empty = TRUE, trim = TRUE, ...)

read_xml(file, skip = 0, remove.empty = TRUE, trim = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

file	The path to the .html file.
skip	The number of lines to skip.
remove.empty	logical. If TRUE empty elements in the vector are removed.
trim	logical. If TRUE the leading/training white space is removed.
...	Other arguments passed to xml2::read_html().

Value

Returns a character vector.

References

The xpath is taken from Tony Breyal's response on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3195522/is-there-a-simple-way-in-r-to-extract-only-the-text-elements-of-an-html-page/3195926#3195926

Examples

html_dat <- read_html(
    system.file("docs/textreadr_creed.html", package = "textreadr")
)

## Not run: 
url <- "http://www.talkstats.com/index.php"
file <- download(url)
(txt <- read_html(url))
(txt <- read_html(file))

## End(Not run)

textreadr documentation built on Oct. 9, 2021, 5:06 p.m.