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scraping a table from a website with rvest
library(rvest)
webpage <- read_html("https://www.computerworld.com/article/3109890/these-r-packages-import-sports-weather-stock-data-and-more.html")
tbls <- html_nodes(webpage, "table")
tbls_ls <- webpage %>%
html_nodes("table") %>%
.[1:1] %>%
html_table(fill = FALSE)
tbls_ls <- webpage %>%
html_nodes("table") %>%
.[1:1] %>%
html_table(fill = FALSE)
tbls_ls
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