table2matrix: table2matrix

In ingmarboeschen/JATSdecoder: A Metadata and Text Extraction and Manipulation Tool Set

table2matrix

Description

Extracts and converts HTML tables to a list of R character matrices

Usage

table2matrix(
  x,
  letter.convert = TRUE,
  greek2text = FALSE,
  replicate = FALSE,
  rm.duplicated = TRUE,
  rm.html = FALSE,
  rm.empty.rows = TRUE,
  collapseHeader = TRUE,
  header2colnames = FALSE,
  unifyMatrix = FALSE
)

Arguments

x	HTML file or text, HTML tables as vector
letter.convert	Logical. If TRUE hex codes will be unified and converted to utf-8 with JATSdecoder::letter.convert()
greek2text	Logical. If TRUE and 'letter.convert=TRUE' converts and unifies various Greek letters to a text based form (e.g. 'alpha', 'beta')
replicate	Logical. If TRUE the content of cells with row/col span is replicated in all connected cells, if FALSE disconnected cells will be empty,
rm.duplicated	Logical. If TRUE duplicated rows are removed from output
rm.html	Logical. If TRUE all HTML tags are removed, except <sub> and <sup> , </break> is converted to space
rm.empty.rows	Logical. If TRUE empty rows are removed from output
collapseHeader	Logical. If TRUE header cells are collapsed for each column if header has 2 or more lines
header2colnames	Logical. If TRUE and 'collapseHeader=TRUE' first table row is used for column names and removed from table
unifyMatrix	Logical. If TRUE matrix cells are further unified for better post processing.

Value

List with detected HTML tables as matrices.

Examples

x<-readLines("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)",warn=FALSE)
tabs<-table2matrix(x)

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