html_table

From rvest v0.3.2 by Hadley Wickham

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 with NAs.
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)
# }

Documentation reproduced from package rvest, version 0.3.2, License: GPL-3

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