I am having trouble extracting the names of authors as variables form the URL below in R. I understand the basics of the GetNodeSet when looking at the structure of data in xml format, but I don't believe I am using the right path or names in order to extract what I want.
Here is the step by step code of what I have done below.
mar16 <- getURL("https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2016-March/date.html", ssl.verifypeer = FALSE)
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My Results
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If you run the last line of code at the very bottom, your result is NULL.
Any suggestions on how to actually get the author names as a result?