HI, I am using R 2.15 in Ubuntu 12.04. It works fine for me.
library(XML) theurl <- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" tables <- readHTMLTable(theurl) A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lay, Kiung" <kiung....@sensis.com.au> To: "r-help@R-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org> Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 2:55 AM Subject: [R] read htm table error Hi I am using Version R 2.15 and I haven't been able read html table. Following is my code and error message. Error in htmlParse(doc) : error in creating parser for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team theurl <- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" tables <- readHTMLTable(theurl) Regards, Kiung [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.