On 25 April 2013 at 13:00, Spencer Graves wrote: | Hello: | | | What tools would you recommend for extracting the table of | members of the US House of representatives from | "http://house.gov/representatives/"; and | "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives_by_age";? | | | | I started writing something using getURL{RCurl}. However, I'm | getting bogged down manually selecting character sequences to search for | and split on.
You could try your own sos package to search what others have done here; the XML package is popular for it but the whole scheme is fraught with little pitfalls as html very definitely is not a good format for data-delivery, and an html page clearly is no API for data access. Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
