Hi Jose, I think this is more of an r-help question so I'm going to forward your question there: R-devel is really for the development of R itself, not development with R.
Cheers, Michael On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:11 PM, jose ramon mazaira <jram...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. I'm trying to write an application to retrieve financial data > (specially bonds data) from FINRA. The web page is served dynamically > from an asp.net application: > > http://cxa.gtm.idmanagedsolutions.com/finra/BondCenter/AdvancedScreener.aspx > > I'd like to know if it's possible to fill dynamically the web page > form from R and, after filling it (with the issuer name), retrieve the > web page, parse the data, and covert it to appropiate R objects. > For example, suppose I want to search data for AT&T bonds. I'd like to > know if it's possible, within R, to fill the page served from: > > http://cxa.gtm.idmanagedsolutions.com/finra/BondCenter/AdvancedScreener.aspx > > select the "corporate" option and fill with AT&T the field for "Issuer > name", ask the page to display the results, and retrieve the results > for each of the bonds issued by AT&T (for example: > > http://cxa.gtm.idmanagedsolutions.com/finra/BondCenter/BondDetail.aspx?ID=MDAxOTU3Qko3) > > and parsing the data from the web page. > > Thanks in advance. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
