Read table from webpage and convert it into dataframe

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I want to read this table in the picture below and store it as data.frame. 

I'm new to web scraping and finding trouble with this. Can anyone help?

The webpage I used is https://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/nba/player-stats/sp-s-pts

Sep 17, 2019 in Data Analytics by kalyan
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Hi Kalyan,

Use html_table to create tables from the data returned by from html_node/s. 

Try below code.

nba = read_html("https://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/nba/player-stats/sp-s-pts")
nba %>% html_nodes(".basketballstatstable") %>% html_table()
answered Sep 17, 2019 by prajwal

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