R: Webscraping: XML content does not seem to be XML

Question

I am trying to webscrape a table. I tried the code below but it does not work giving an error message:

XML content does not seem to be XML

 library(XML)

 link1 <- "https://www.westmetall.com/en/markdaten.php?action=show_table&field=LME_Cu_cash"
 table1 <-readHTMLTable(link1,stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
 table1
 dd = do.call(rbind,table1)
 dd

Thank you for your help.

Try this? https://stackoverflow.com/a/23584751/6685140 – Sam Hollenbach Dec 22 '18 at 20:50 — Sam Hollenbach, Dec 22 '18 at 20:50

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 22 '18 at 20:52

You may use getURL() to obtain the html content, and then use readHTMLTable, like this:

library(XML)
library(RCurl) # for getURL()

link1 <- "https://www.westmetall.com/en/markdaten.php?action=show_table&field=LME_Cu_cash"
html <- getURL(link1)
table1 <-readHTMLTable(html,stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

Hope it helps.

R: Webscraping: XML content does not seem to be XML

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