scrapeHTML: Function scrapeHTML

In AndreasFischer1985/JDDM: A number of functions to facilitate the layouting of LaTeX-manuscripts in a highly automated manner directly from R

Description

Extracts Information from HTML.

Usage

scrapeHTML(html, short = F, edit = T, save = F, plot = F,
  filename = NULL)

Arguments

html	A character element containing HTML-code.
short	Logical value specifying whether only lines with verbal information or link should be returned. Defaults to F.
edit	Logical value specifying whether the data.frame should be plotted/edited.
save	Logical value specifying whether the HTML-code should be saved to a csv-file.
plot	Logical value specifying whether to plot the frequency of each HTML-tag found in the html-object.
filename	Character value specifying the filename (if save is TRUE). If NULL (default) as.numeric(Sys.time()) is applied.

Details

Extracts Information from HTML code (as returned by JDDM::getHTML, for example). Returns a data.frame with three columns: the first column contains html-code, the second column contains extracted verbal information, and the third column contains extracted links.

Examples

scrapeHTML(getHTML())

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