Scraping a complex HTML table into a data.frame in R

Question

I am trying to load wikipedia\'s data on US Supreme Court Justices into R:

library(rvest)

html = html(\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Justices_of_the         


        

Answer 1

You could use rvest

library(rvest)

html("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States")%>%   
  html_nodes("span+ a") %>% 
  html_text()

It's not perfect so you might want to refine the css selector but it gets you fairly close.