read_html_tables: Function to read HTML tables from an URL.

View source: R/read_html_tables.R

read_html_tablesR Documentation

Function to read HTML tables from an URL.

Description

Function to read HTML tables from an URL.

Usage

read_html_tables(url, col_names = TRUE)

Arguments

url

A URL which contains HTML tables.

col_names

Do the HTML tables have column names/headers?

Value

Named list containing tibbles.

Author(s)

Stuart K. Grange

Examples


# A url
url <- "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_London_Underground_stations"

# A list
list_tables <- read_html_tables(url)
length(list_tables)

# Get a single data frame
data_stations <- list_tables[[1]]


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