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

One simple way to do it is to use the RGoogleDocs interface to have Google Docs to do the conversion for you:

http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs/run.html

You can then use the =ImportHtml Google Docs function with all its pre-built magic.