My question is similar to this one, but the latter did not receive an answer I can work with. I am scraping thousands of urls with xml2::read_html. This works fine. But when I try and parse the res...

I'm using R in a commercial environment where external connectivity all goes via a web proxy, so we need to specify the proxy server address and ensure we connect to it with Windows authentication....

Previously posted a related stackoverflow question about scraping a table on the leaderboard page of the PGA's website on this page. To summarize that post, the leaderboard table is difficult to sc...

Objects can be saved and read like so # Save as file saveRDS(iris, "mydata.RDS") # Read back in readRDS("mydata.RDS") But this doesn't seem to work for objects made with xml2::read_html() Ex...

The PGA tour's website has a leaderboard page page and I am trying to scrape the main table on the website for a project. library(dplyr) leaderboard_table <- xml2::read_html('https://www.pgatour...

Question My question, explained below, is: How can R be used to read a string that includes HTML emoji codes like ��? I'd like to: (1) represent the emoji symbol (e.g., as ...

I am using the xml2 package in R to access xml data, and found that it behaves different on different xml_documents. On this pet example library(xml2) doc <- read_xml( "<MEMBERS> <CU...

I'd like to do exactly what xml2::xml_text() or rvest::html_text() do but preserve the tags instead of replacing e.g. <br> with \n. The objective is to e.g. scrape a web page, extract the nod...

The xml2 package allows users to create XML documents. I'm trying to create a document using the pipe operator %>% to add various combinations of child and sibling nodes. I cannot figure out how...

I am trying to simply replicate the example of rvest::html_nodes(), yet encounter an error: library(rvest) ateam <- read_html("http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=ateam.htm") html_nodes(ate...

Consider the following XML example library(xml2) myxml <- read_xml(' <data> <obs ID="a"> <name> John </name> <hobby> tennis </hobby> <hobby> golf ...

I use R and it's package xml2 to parse an html document. I extracted a piece of html file, which looks like this: text <- ('<div> <p><span class="number">1</span>First&a...

I am using the xml2 package to read a huge XML file into memory and the command fails with the following error: Error: Char 0x0 out of allowed range [9] My code looks like the following: libr...

I have a bunch of XML files and an R script that reads their content into a data frame. However, I got now files which I wanted to parse as usual, but there is something in their namespace definiti...