[R] Problem with readHTMLTable

arun smartpink111 at yahoo.com
Sat May 26 22:35:32 CEST 2012


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 <sduve at hotmail.com>
To: r-help at r-project.org
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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




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