html_table
From rvest v0.3.2
by Hadley Wickham
Parse an html table into a data frame.
Parse an html table into a data frame.
Usage
html_table(x, header = NA, trim = TRUE, fill = FALSE, dec = ".")
Arguments
- x
A node, node set or document.
- header
Use first row as header? If
NA
, will use first row if it consists of<th>
tags.- trim
Remove leading and trailing whitespace within each cell?
- fill
If
TRUE
, automatically fill rows with fewer than the maximum number of columns withNA
s.- dec
The character used as decimal mark.
Assumptions
html_table
currently makes a few assumptions:
No cells span multiple rows
Headers are in the first row
Examples
library(rvest)
# NOT RUN {
tdist <- read_html("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%27s_t-distribution")
tdist %>%
html_node("table.infobox") %>%
html_table(header = FALSE)
births <- read_html("https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/numberUSbirths.html")
html_table(html_nodes(births, "table")[[2]])
# If the table is badly formed, and has different number of rows in
# each column use fill = TRUE. Here's it's due to incorrect colspan
# specification.
skiing <- read_html("http://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/results.html?sector=CC&raceid=22395")
skiing %>%
html_table(fill = TRUE)
# }
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