Hi Sven, The function is working perfectly fine for me. Could it be due to package masking the function? Sometimes, these problems will get solved by restarting R console. It happened to me a couple of times.
A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sven D <sd...@hotmail.com> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 10:17 AM Subject: [R] Problem with readHTMLTable Hello All, i was trying to simply run the readHTMLTable on the example published in the package. And on a page I was working on. So running: u = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population"; tables = readHTMLTable(u) returns the following error: Error in tb[["thead"]] : subscript out of bounds looking up this error on the web, didnt give me any hint. Is something wrong with this function? this is my sessioninfo: > sessionInfo() R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22) Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] XML_3.9-4.1 RCurl_1.91-1.1 bitops_1.0-4.1 PerformanceAnalytics_1.0.3.2 [5] quantstrat_0.6.4 blotter_0.8.4 FinancialInstrument_0.13.6 quantmod_0.3-17 [9] Defaults_1.1-1 TTR_0.21-0 xts_0.8-2 zoo_1.7-6 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] grid_2.14.1 IBrokers_0.9-3 lattice_0.20-0 tools_2.14.1 Many thanks Sven -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Problem-with-readHTMLTable-tp4631439.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
