Description Usage Arguments Assumptions Examples
Parse an html table into a data frame.
1 | html_table(x, header = NA, trim = TRUE, fill = FALSE, dec = ".")
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x |
A node, node set or document. |
header |
Use first row as header? If |
trim |
Remove leading and trailing whitespace within each cell? |
fill |
If |
dec |
The character used as decimal mark. |
html_table
currently makes a few assumptions:
No cells span multiple rows
Headers are in the first row
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | tdist <- read_html("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%27s_t-distribution")
tdist %>%
html_node("table.infobox") %>%
html_table(header = FALSE)
births <- read_html("https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/numberUSbirths.html")
html_table(html_nodes(births, "table")[[2]])
# If the table is badly formed, and has different number of rows in
# each column use fill = TRUE. Here's it's due to incorrect colspan
# specification.
skiing <- read_html("http://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/results.html?sector=CC&raceid=22395")
skiing %>%
html_table(fill = TRUE)
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