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

Here is a solution that works with the secure (https) link:

install.packages("htmltab")
library(htmltab)
htmltab("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Peninsula_of_Michigan",3)