Displaying 3 results from an estimated 3 matches for "brazil_national_football_team".
2012 Aug 09
2
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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2009 Oct 15
1
Removing Embedded Null characters from text/html
...it should stop processing the page so I'd like to remove them.
I've been looking around and can't seem to identify exactly what the
character is and consequently how to remove it.
# THE CODE WORKS ON THIS PAGE
library(RCurl)
library(XML)
theurl <- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team"
webpage <- getURL(theurl)
# BUT DOES NOT WORK HERE DUE TO EMBEDDED NULL CHARACTERS
theurl <- "http://screen.yahoo.com/b?pr=1/&s=nm&db=stocks&vw=0&b=21"
webpage <- getURL(theurl)
Error in curlPerform(curl = curl, .opts = opts, .encoding = .encoding) :
Fai...
2009 Oct 14
2
puzzle using gsub (and encodings maybe)
Hello,
Below is some output that shows my issue.
I have a variable x that I read from a file (more on this below)
> x
[1] "NEW YORK NEW ENGLAND"
> gsub(" -", "-", x) # this does not work!
[1] "NEW YORK NEW ENGLAND"
> Encoding(x) # is x in a special encoding? no
[1] "unknown"
> y = "NEW YORK -NEW