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2017 Jun 22
2
Accessing Pointers
Hello,
I am relatively new to R and would like to access the document my pointer
is pointing to in the following line of code. Need some help.
#install.packages('xml2')
library('xml2')
pg1 <- read_html("www.msn.com")
str(pg1)
ptr <- pg1[[2]]
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2017 Jun 22
0
Accessing Pointers
> On Jun 22, 2017, at 12:52 PM, Lawrence Fomundam <lawfom at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am relatively new to R and would like to access the document my pointer
"my pointer"?
> is pointing to in the following line of code. Need some help.
>
> #install.packages('xml2')
> library('xml2')
> pg1 <-
2018 Jan 31
0
Scraping info from a web site?
...asily
Harvest (Scrape) Web Pages".? I tried the following:
URL <- 'https://www.battleforthenet.com/scoreboard/'
library(rvest)
Bftn <- read_html(URL)
str(Bftn)
List of 2
?$ node:<externalptr>
?$ doc :<externalptr>
?- attr(*, "class")= chr [1:2] "xml_document" "xml_node"
?????? However, I don't know what to do with <externalptr>.
????? The "Selectorgadget" vignette with rvest suggested selecting what
I wanted on the web page and pasting that as an argument into
"html_node".? This led me to try the fol...