Hi,

I can't get the colClasses option to work in the readHTMLTable function 
of the XML package. Here's a code fragment:

    require("XML")
    doc <- "http://www.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html"
    table <- getNodeSet(htmlParse(doc),"//table") [[2]]        # The
    main table is the second one because it's embedded in the page table.
    xt <- readHTMLTable(
             table,
             header =
    c("peak","trough","contraction","expansion","trough2trough","peak2peak"),
             colClasses =
    c("character","character","character","character","character","character"),
             trim = TRUE
             )

Does anyone know what's wrong?

     Marsh Feldman

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