[R] parsing pdf files

[David Kane]

I have a pdf file that I would like to parse into R:

http://www.williams.edu/Registrar/geninfo/faculty.pdf

For now, I open the file in Acrobat by hand, then save it "as text"
and then use readLines(). That works fine but a) I am concerned that
some information may be lost and b) I may be doing this a lot, so I
would rather have R grab the information from the pdf file directly.

So: is there something like readPDF() for R?

Thanks,

Dave Kane

PS. If you're curious, here is the sort of work that I want to do with
this data:
http://www.ephblog.com/2010/01/08/class-update-and-faculty-ages/