Line 101 of scrape.Rmd uses rvest::html_table() to convert the HTML table of all 25K census variables into a data frame. It runs very slowly (~5 minutes) and doesn't even deal well with the thead, tfoot, and tbody tags. Is there a better alternative? @khondula @reblake ?
Line 101 of scrape.Rmd uses rvest::html_table() to convert the HTML table of all 25K census variables into a data frame. It runs very slowly (~5 minutes) and doesn't even deal well with the thead, tfoot, and tbody tags. Is there a better alternative? @khondula @reblake ?