Extremely quick way to read html tables and import into R

For a recent consulting assignment, we needed to get earnings data for today from a reliable source.

The data from our current provider was not completely accurate and we planned to use Yahoo's calendar as a second check.

Getting this data using an automated method is possible but required significant time!

Here is a quick way to get the data quite efficiently:

• Read the data to the clipboard using table to csv Chrome extension
• Read the data into R using datapasta

Pretty quick and does the job! The post image shows the usage.

library(datapasta)
tribble_construct() -> tbl
eval(parse(textConnection(tbl))) -> df_earnings_calendar