[R] Downloading a html table

[Rolf Turner]

On 23/10/12 16:17, David Arnold wrote:
> All,
>
> A friend of mine would like to use this data with his stats class:
>
> http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/populations/usapoptable.htm
>
> I can't figure a way of capturing this data due to the mysql commands in the
> source code.
>
> Any thoughts?

Copying and pasting, and then editing the resulting file just a wee bit 
(changing
the blanks in state names to underscores) gave me a file that was readily
readable by read.table().

Is the column of state populations really blank?  Or is there something
funny happening with my web browser?

     cheers,

         Rolf Turner