On Jan 15, 2013, at 2:31 PM, Lopez, Dan wrote: > Hi Ista, > > It does exist. It’s a page in our company intranet. > > It is https so it looks like I can't use RCurl either. I tried RCurl BTW and > got the below error. > > Do you have experience with pulling a table of an https site? If so how do I > do that?
Why not use a browser and save it locally? -- David. > > >> tabs <- >> readHTMLTable(getURL("https://hr-workforce-analytics.llnl.gov/wf_pi_pop.html")) > Error in > readHTMLTable(getURL("https://hr-workforce-analytics.llnl.gov/wf_pi_pop.html")) > : > error in evaluating the argument 'doc' in selecting a method for function > 'readHTMLTable': Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE) : > SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: > error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify > failed > > > Thanks. > Dan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ista Zahn [mailto:istaz...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:22 PM > To: Lopez, Dan > Cc: R help (r-help@r-project.org) > Subject: Re: [R] readHTMLTable (XML package) > > Hi Dan, > > A couple of things: first, I think that file really does not exist (at least > I can't open it in my web browser). Second, even if it did, > url() cannot download from https, according to the details section of ?url, > which points you to RCurl. So, once you verify that you url actually exists > you can do something like > > library(XML) > library(RCurl) > tabs <- > readHTMLTable(getURL("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population")) > > Best, > Ista > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Lopez, Dan <lopez...@llnl.gov> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am using XML::readHTMLTable and getting the below error. Does anyone know >> why? Does this function not work with https? I didn't see anything in help >> about that. >> >>> library(XML) >>> wampage<-readHTMLTable('https://hr-workforce-analytics.llnl.gov/wf_pi >>> _pop.html',1) >> Error in htmlParse(doc) : >> File https://hr-workforce-analytics.llnl.gov/wf_pi_pop.html does not >> exist >> >> Dan >> >> >> [[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. David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ 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.