Rather than requiring manual tweaking,
library(XML)
readHTMLTable("http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/populations/usapoptable.htm";)
will do the job for us.
D.
On 10/22/12 8:17 PM, David Arnold wrote:
> All,
>
> A friend of mine would like to use this data with his stats class:
>
> http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/populations/usapoptable.htm
>
> I can't figure a way of capturing this data due to the mysql commands in the
> source code.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> David.
>
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