ChRistmas with extRa R - XML & xtable

I like the R blog is.R(). They're doing an Advent CalendaR this Christmas looking at an R package everyday up until Christmas Eve. I thought I'd play along. Instead of doing exactly the same as them and using the US presidential election results I'll do a variation on a theme and scrape the last UK general election results data from Wikipedia.

> require(XML)
> myURL <-"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2010"
> allTables <-readHTMLTable(myURL)
> str(allTables)
#List of 29..... I just want the 11th
> stateTable <- allTables[[11]]
> head(stateTable)
#used the data editor in RGui to tidy it up a little
> fix(stateTable)
#Need to remove the first column as I'm not bothered about the #colours and adjust some on the column names
> stateTable <- stateTable[,-1]
> names(stateTable)
> colnames(stateTable)[7] <- 'Net Change in Seats'
> colnames(stateTable)[10] <- 'Change in % of Votes'
> require(xtable)
> resultsTable<-xtable(stateTable)
> print(resultsTable, type="html"))

	Political Party	Candidates	Number of Votes	Elected	Seats Gained	Seats Lost	Net Change in Seats	% of Seats	% of Votes	Change in % of Votes
1	Conservative	631	10,703,654	306	100	3	+97	47.1	36.1	+3.7
2	Labour	631	8,606,517	258	3	94	-91	39.7	29.0	-6.2
3	Liberal Democrat	631	6,836,248	57	8	13	-5	8.8	23.0	+1.0
4	UKIP	572	919,471	0	0	0	0	0	3.1	+0.9
5	BNP	338	564,321	0	0	0	0	0	1.9	+1.2
6	SNP	59	491,386	6	0	0	0	0.9	1.7	+0.1
7	Green	310	265,243	1	1	0	+1	0.2	0.9	-0.2
8	Sinn Féin	17	171,942	5	0	0	0	0.8	0.6	-0.1
9	Democratic Unionist	16	168,216	8	0	1	-1	1.2	0.6	-0.3
10	Plaid Cymru	40	165,394	3	1	0	+1	0.5	0.6	-0.1
11	SDLP	18	110,970	3	0	0	0	0.5	0.4	-0.1
12	Conservatives and Unionists	17	102,361	0	0	1	-1	0	0.3	-0.1
13	English Democrats	107	64,826	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	0.2
14	Alliance	18	42,762	1	1	0	+1	0.2	0.1	0.0
15	Respect	11	33,251	0	0	1	-1	0	0.1	-0.1
16	Traditional Unionist Voice	10	26,300	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	N/A
17	Speaker	1	22,860	1	0	0	0	0.2	0.1	0.0
18	Independent - Rodney Connor	1	21,300	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	N/A
19	Independent - Sylvia Hermon	1	21,181	1	1	0	+1	0.2	0.1	N/A
20	Christian	71	18,623	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	+0.1
21	Green	20	16,827	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	0.0
22	Health Concern	1	16,150	0	0	1	-1	0	0.1	0.0
23	Trade Unionist &amp Socialist	42	12,275	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	N/A
24	Independent - Bob Spink	1	12,174	0	0	1	-1	0	0.0	N/A
25	National Front	17	10,784	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0
26	Buckinghamshire Campaign for Democracy	1	10,331	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	N/A
27	Monster Raving Loony	27	7,510	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0
28	Socialist Labour	23	7,219	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	-0.1
29	Liberal	5	6,781	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	-0.1
30	Blaenau Gwent People's Voice	1	6,458	0	0	1	-1	0	0.0	-0.1
31	Christian Peoples	17	6,276	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0
32	Mebyon Kernow	6	5,379	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0
33	Lincolnshire Independents	3	5,311	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	N/A
34	Mansfield Independent Forum	1	4,339	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	N/A
35	Green (NI)	4	3,542	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0
36	Socialist Alternative	3	3,298	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0
37	Trust	2	3,233	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	N/A
38	Scottish Socialist	10	3,157	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	-0.1
39	People Before Profit	1	2,936	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	N/A
40	Local Liberals People Before Politics	1	1,964	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	N/A
41	Independent - Esther Rantzen	1	1,872	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	N/A
42	Alliance for Green Socialism	6	1,581	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0
43	Social Democrat	2	1,551	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	N/A
44	Pirate	9	1,340	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	N/A
45	Communist	6	947	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0
46	Democratic Labour	1	842	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0
47	Democratic Nationalist Party	2	753	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	N/A
48	Workers Revolutionary	7	738	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0
49	Peace	3	737	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0
50	New Millennium Bean Party	1	558	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0
51	-	29,687,604	650	-	-	-	Turnout	65.1	-