[R] xpathSApply skip if text equals postseason

[Don Hessey]

I'm running into a road block here and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.  I need to skip over the link if the text equals postseason.  The text is in the second li in the xpaths below in my code. I tried li[not(.,"postseason")] as I thought that is what I needed to exclude the postseason link but it doesn't work. This link will show you an example of want I want to exclude under standard batting > game logs > postseason http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jeterde01.shtml place this http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jeterde01.shtml in playerURLs and you should season the postseason link returned.  How can I skip over the postseason link?  Thanks! #GET YEARS PLAYED LINKS 


yplist = NULL 

playerURLs <- paste("http://www.baseball-reference.com",datafile17[,c("hrefs")],sep="") 

for(thisplayerURL in playerURLs){ 

doc <- htmlParse(thisplayerURL) 
yplinks <- data.frame( 
  names =  xpathSApply(doc, '//*[@id="all_standard_batting"]/div//ul/li[2]/ul/li/a',xmlValue), 
  hrefs = xpathSApply(doc, '//*[@id="all_standard_batting"]/div/ul/li[2]/ul/li/a',xmlGetAttr,'href')) 

yplist = rbind(yplist, yplinks) 

} 

yplist[,c("hrefs")] 		 	   		  
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