Try to download something in IE and look at the bottom of your browser where the URL is displayed or look at the Javascript in: http://data.un.org/_Scripts/SeriesActions.js
and its apparent that the format is as follows: http://data.un.org/Handlers/DownloadHandler.ashx?DataFilter=srID:1000&dataMartId=CDB&&Format=csv&c=2,3,4 It also accepts Format=xml, scsv (semicolon separated) and psv (pipe separated) formats and there is a sort field (s=...) allowed which I omitted since it appears to work without it. You will have to experiment to find the possible values of the other fields. The result of entering the above URL in your browser is to download a zip file containing the indicated data in csv format. On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Ajay Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > > A nice new data resource has come up -- http://data.un.org/ > I thought it would be wonderful to setup an R function like > tseries::get.hist.quote() which would be able to pull in some or all > of this data. > > I walked around a bit of it and I'm not able to map the resources to > predictable URLs which can then be wget. There's some javascript going > on that I'm not understanding. Perhaps someone on the mailing list can > think about this? > > -- > Ajay Shah http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ajayshahblog.blogspot.com > <*(:-? - wizard who doesn't know the answer. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
