[R] read htm table error

[John Kane]

Works fine for me.  

 sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
[8] base     

other attached packages:
[1] XML_3.9-4          directlabels_2.6   stringr_0.6.1      RColorBrewer_1.0-5
[5] reshape2_1.2.1     scales_0.2.1       plyr_1.7.1         gridExtra_0.9     
[9] ggplot2_0.9.1     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] colorspace_1.1-1 dichromat_1.2-4  digest_0.5.2     labeling_0.1    
[5] MASS_7.3-20      memoise_0.1      munsell_0.3      proto_0.3-9.2   
[9] tools_2.15.1    
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John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: kiung.lay at sensis.com.au
> Sent: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 06:55:17 +0000
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] read htm table error
> 
> 
> Hi I am using Version R 2.15 and I haven't been able read html table.
> Following is my code and error message.
> Error in htmlParse(doc) :
>   error in creating parser for
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team
> 
> theurl <- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team"
>  tables <- readHTMLTable(theurl)
> 
> Regards,
> Kiung
> 
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