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

[Gabor Grothendieck]

If the question is specific to getting stock data from
google finance then check out getSymbols.google
in the quantmod package.

Also note that there exists an r-sig-finance list for questions
pertaining to R and finance.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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