Thank you kindly Henrique, that works perfectly for me. On 24 June 2010 15:25, Henrique Dallazuanna <www...@gmail.com> wrote: > Try this: > > library(XML) > xmlValue(getNodeSet(htmlParse(x, asText = TRUE), "//p")[[1]]) > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Tony Breyal <tony.bre...@googlemail.com> > wrote: >> >> (I've just realised that the example above might not be clear when >> viewed in a browser) >> >> So just to clarify, I would like to convert HTML entities into the >> ASCII equivalent using R, saving the results to a plain text file. >> >> For example: >> >> x <- paste("i", "s", "n", "&", "a", "p", "o", "s", ";", "t", sep = "") >> >> would become the following, when output to the plain text file: >> >> > "isn't" >> >> >> Thank you again for your time, >> Tony Breyal >> >> On 23 June 2010 12:32, Tony B <tony.bre...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> > Dear all, >> > >> > I am aware of the URLdecode(..) function and was wondering if there >> > was something similar for HTML? >> > >> > For example, I would like to convert strings like this: >> > >> >> x <- "isn't" >> > >> > into this: >> > >> >> "isn't" >> > >> > Many thanks for your time, >> > Tony Breyal >> > >> > # O/S: Windows Vista 32 bit >> > # R version 2.11.0 (2010-04-22) >> >> >> >> -- >> Tony Breyal >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > -- > Henrique Dallazuanna > Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil > 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O >
-- Tony Breyal ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.