Importing wikipedia tables in R

Question

I regularly extract tables from Wikipedia. Excel\'s web import does not work properly for wikipedia, as it treats the whole page as a table. In google spreadsheet, I can ent

Answer 1

Building on Andrie's answer, and addressing SSL. If you can take one additional library dependency:

library(httr)
library(XML)

url <- "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Peninsula_of_Michigan"

r <- GET(url)

doc <- readHTMLTable(
  doc=content(r, "text"))

doc[6]