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Hello, I want to take the table of the Brazilian, for example this site "http://globoesporte.globo.com/futebol/brasileirao-serie-a/" and extract to a dateset in Rstudio, so that whenever the table updates as the games, it updates to rstudio as well. Someone can help me?
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For that I usually use the package XML. Allows you to tell which table of the web page interests. In this case this page has several. The third has nothing of interest, so I extracted the numbers 1, 2, and 4.
library(XML)
URL <- "http://globoesporte.globo.com/futebol/brasileirao-serie-a/"
tabela1 <- readHTMLTable(URL, which = 1)
tabela1
tabela2 <- readHTMLTable(URL, which = 2)
tabela2
tabela4 <- readHTMLTable(URL, which = 4)
tabela4
Note that you can use the arguments of the base function R read.table, namely the argument stringsAsFactors can be important.
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