Hmm, Rcurl may be able to help you. Not sure I have not played with the "query" abilities.
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Erik Gregory <egregory2...@yahoo.com>wrote: > R-Help, > > I'm trying to obtain some data from a webpage which masks the URL from the > user, > so an explicit URL will not work. For example, when one navigates to the > web > page the URL looks something like: > http://137.113.141.205/rpt34s.php?flags=1 (changed for privacy, but i'm > not sure > you could access it anyways since it's internal to the agency I work for). > The site has three drop-down menus for "Site", "Month," and "Year". When a > combination is selected of these, the resulting URL is > always http://137.113.141.205/rpt34s (nothing changes, except "flags=1" is > dropped, so what I need to be able to do is write something that will > navigate > to the original URL, then select some combination of "Site", "Month", and > "Year," and then submit the query to the site to navigate to the page with > the > data. > Is this a capability that R has as a language? Unfortunately, I'm > unfamiliar > with html or php programming, so if this question belongs in a forum on > that I > apologize. I'm trying to centralize all of my code for my analysis in R! > > Thank you, > -Erik Gregory > Student Assistant, California EPA > CSU Sacramento, Mathematics > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
