[R] Downloading a html table

[Duncan Temple Lang]

Rather than requiring manual tweaking,

library(XML)
readHTMLTable("http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/populations/usapoptable.htm")

will do the job for us.

 D.

On 10/22/12 8:17 PM, 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?
> 
> David.
> 
> 
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