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htmltab: Hassle-free HTML tables in R

HTML tables are a valuable data source but extracting and recasting

these data into a useful format can be tedious. htmltab is a package for

extracting structured information from HTML tables. It is similar to

readHTMLTable() of the XML package but provides two major advantages. First,

the function automatically expands row and column spans in the header and

body cells. Second, users are given more control over the identification of

header and body rows which will end up in the R table. Additionally, the

function preprocesses table code, removes unneeded parts and so helps to

alleviate the need for tedious post-processing.

Installation

The package is available from CRAN and Github. For the stable release version, download from CRAN:

install.packages("htmltab")

For the developer version, download from my GitHub repo. You can install the package directly from inside R:

install.packages("devtools")

devtools::install_github("crubba/htmltab")

Usage

To see htmltab in action, take a look at the case studies in the package vignette, this blog post or consult the package manual.

Travis status

Report issues

If you experience problems with htmltab, I would like to hear about it to improve the project. Please use my github repo to report the issue.