[R] Loading Chess Data

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

Try the following


library(XML)

url <- "http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men"
chess <- readHTMLTable(url, header = TRUE, which = 5)

str(chess)  # See what we have

# All variables are factors,
# convert these to integer
chess$Rating <- as.integer(chess$Rating)
chess$Games <- as.integer(chess$Games)
chess$`B-Year` <- as.integer(chess$`B-Year`)

head(chess, 20)  # See first 20 rows


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas
Em 02-09-2012 17:41, David Arnold escreveu:
> All,
>
> What would be the most efficient way to load the data at the following
> address into a dataframe?
>
> http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>
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