what's wrong with my R code? -


i struggling parse contents html using htmltreeparse , xpath. below web link need extract information of "most valuable brands" , create data frame out of it. http://www.forbes.com/powerful-brands/list/#tab:rank

as first step towards building table, trying extract list of brands (apple, google, microsoft etc. ). trying through below code:

library(xml)  htmlcontent <- geturl("http://www.forbes.com/powerful-brands/list/#tab:rank", ssl.verifypeer=false) htmlparsed <- htmltreeparse(htmlcontent, useinternal = true) output <- xpathsapply(htmlparsed, "/html/body/div/div/div/table[@id='the_list']/tbody/tr/td[@class='name']", xmlvalue) 

but returning null. not able find mistake. "/html/body/div/div/div/table[@id='the_list']/thead/tr/th" works correctly, returning ("", "rank", "brand" etc.) means path upto table correct. not able understand what's wrong thereafter.


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

unity3d - Rotate an object to face an opposite direction -

angular - Is it possible to get native element for formControl? -

javascript - Why jQuery Select box change event is now working? -