Re: [R] Problem with readHTMLTable

2012-05-27 Thread Sven D
Thanks Michael, thanks Arun, silly enough, I actually had to restart the whole thing. And the function now performs pretty well. Many thanks Sven -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Problem-with-readHTMLTable-tp4631439p4631498.html Sent from the R help mailing li

Re: [R] Problem with readHTMLTable

2012-05-26 Thread arun
: Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 10:17 AM Subject: [R] Problem with readHTMLTable Hello All, i was trying to simply run the readHTMLTable on the example published in the package. And on a page I was working on. So running: u = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population&quo

Re: [R] Problem with readHTMLTable

2012-05-26 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
Odd... it doesn't throw an error for me. Two things possibly come to mind, but I don't know enough of the XML internals to know if they're reasonable. First is that something seems funny about your version number -- mine is simply XML_3.9-4 (no added "-1"); do you have any idea why yours would be

[R] Problem with readHTMLTable

2012-05-26 Thread Sven D
Hello All, i was trying to simply run the readHTMLTable on the example published in the package. And on a page I was working on. So running: u = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population"; tables = readHTMLTable(u) returns the following error: Error in tb[["thead"]] : subscr