title: Scraping html tables into R data frames using the XML package
body: <p>How do I scrape html tables using the XML package?</p>
  
  <p>Take, for example, this wikipedia page on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" rel="noreferrer">Brazilian soccer team</a>. I would like to read it in R and get the "list of all matches Brazil have played against FIFA recognised teams" table as a data.frame. How can I do this?</p>