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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