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 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Loading-Chess-Data-tp4642006.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.
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