I haven't used it extensively myself, and can't speak to it's current state but on quick inspection RHTMLForms seems worth a look for what you want.
http://www.omegahat.org/RHTMLForms/ ~G On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 t 5:38 AM, Paul Gilbert <pgilbert...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know of an easy way to do this in R. I've been doing something > similar with python scripts called from R. If anyone knows how to do this > with just R, I would appreciate hearing too. > > Paul > > > On 12-10-29 04:11 PM, jose ramon mazaira 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<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<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<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<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel> >> >> > ______________________________**________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-devel<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel> > -- Gabriel Becker Graduate Student Statistics Department University of California, Davis [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
