[R] Parsing of HTML files in R

[Duncan Temple Lang]

If my memory serves me correctly, I believe that Dan Veillard's libxml
library provides an adaptation of the XML parser that handles HTML. In
that case, I can add something to the XML package that allows us to
access the HTML parser and use the same interface for both XML and
HTML from within R. I'll take a look and see if this is relatively
easy to do.


Luis Torgo wrote:
> Is there any package similar to the XML package that is able to
> "extract" relevant information from HTML files. Namely, I'm interested
> in obtained data that is represented as a HTML table, into some R-type
> structure.
> Thank you.
> 
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