Hi I am using the XML package in R to scrape html pages. The page of interest is http://ift.tt/1q29dWG and on that page there is a sequence of which when inspecting the element in chrome, the xpath is
//*[@id="gi_225903367_141"]
however when I try to pull this using:
xpathSApply(htmlParse(fasta.url.content),"//*[@id="viewercontent1"]/pre")
Error: unexpected symbol in "xpathSApply(htmlParse(fasta.url.content),"//*[@id="viewercontent1"
I get the above error.
Is the XML package being fussy with the xpath?
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