[R] extract tables as data.frames from HTML source

[Yihui Xie]

Hi,

I wonder whether there is any convenient function (or package) to
extract tables from a HTML page? e.g. from
http://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=SHE:002251

I know we can readLines('URL'), gsub('<td>...', '...', source), ...
and at last get the numbers; I'm writing to ask whether someone has
already contributed a more general function (with the package XML or
other packages). Thanks!

Regards,
Yihui
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