renkun-ken

A Pipe version of Zev Ross.

An alternative version of timelyportfolio's and smbache's.

If you are not familiar with pipeR, you can read the still-in-progress pipeR tutorial. The best practices of pipeR's Pipe():

• Keep side effects as small as possible, use it only when necessary.
• Separate Pipes into concentrated pieces.
• Don't avoid necessary intermediate variables.

renkun-ken

library(pipeR) # https://github.com/renkun-ken/pipeR
library(rlist) # https://github.com/renkun-ken/rlist
library(rvest) # https://github.com/hadley/rvest
library(stringr) # https://github.com/hadley/stringr
# please ensure rvest is the latest dev version

Pipe("http://www.r-project.org/foundation/memberlist.html")$
  html()$ # use xpath to scrape the name list
  html_nodes(xpath = "//table[2]//td//text() | //table[3]//td//text()")$
  html_text(trim = TRUE)$