[ hotmail not marking orig text, top post for clarity] This is one of my current jihads, along with removing adjectives where numbers are available, and I'm curious if there is a FAQ on this somewhere? Scraping data from web pages is always a hack, any approach should include an attempt to fix the problem by contacting the data source and suggest a better way to make data available. Since this problem comes up in many contexts, I tend to stick with linux tools but the R approach is quite similar often just turning "curl" into "Rcurl" for example.
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=R+scraping+web+page ---------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 21:02:57 -0800 From: debmi...@yahoo.com To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Extracting content from web Hi R Users, Thanks in advance. May I request you to assist me for the following please. Is there any R-package or R Script to extract content(s) from web. Once again, thank you very much for the time you have given. Regards, Deb [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.
