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I'm trying to get some data from a website with the RHTMLForms package. First I want to get the form description so I run:

library(RHTMLForms)
uBTS <- "https://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=289"
fm <- getHTMLFormDescription(uBTS)

However when I try that I get the following error:

Warning message:
XML content does not seem to be XML: 'https://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=289'

I'm not sure if there's an alternative or not or if this is even something to be expected. I'm following an example from a book which actually uses the same website, and there seems to work.

EDIT: I followed the instructions from here Error: XML Content does not seem to be XML | R 3.1.0 but it didn't really solve my problem. Also it seems that the links they suggest are down.

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