Access a URL and read Data with R

Question

Is there a way I can specify and get data from a web site URL on to a CSV file for analysis using R?

Answer 1

Often data on webpages is in the form of an XML table. You can read an XML table into R using the package XML.

In this package, the function

readHTMLTable()

will look through a page for XML tables and return a list of data frames (one for each table found).