[R] How to load data from Statistics Canada

Luc Villandre villandl at dms.umontreal.ca
Wed May 20 21:17:33 CEST 2009


guox at ucalgary.ca wrote:
> We would like to load data from Statistics Canada
> (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/) using R,
> for example, Employment and unemployment rates.
> It seems to me that the tables are displayed in HTML.
> I was wondering if you know how to load these tables. Thanks,
>
> -james
>
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Hi James,

I believe a similar issue was covered recently in the following thread:

http://www.nabble.com/import-HTML-tables-td23504282.html#a23517322

If this is not what you need, please go into more details as to what the 
issue at hand may be.

HTH,
-- 
*Luc Villandré*
/Biostatistician
McGill University Health Center -
Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute/




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