title: How to scrape a table with rvest and xpath?
body: <p>using the following <a href="http://www.r-bloggers.com/using-rvest-to-scrape-an-html-table/" rel="noreferrer">documentation</a> i have been trying to scrape a series of tables from marketwatch.com </p>
  
  <p>here is the one represented by the code bellow: </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ak9iH.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ak9iH.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>The link and xpath are already included in the code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>url &lt;- "http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/IRS/profile"
  valuation &lt;- url %&gt;%
    html() %&gt;%
    html_nodes(xpath='//*[@id="maincontent"]/div[2]/div[1]') %&gt;%
    html_table()
  valuation &lt;- valuation[[1]]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get the following error: </p>
  
  <pre><code>Warning message:
  'html' is deprecated.
  Use 'read_html' instead.
  See help("Deprecated") 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance. </p>