It works for me. Or at least I got something to download. What is another
matter. I am just trying to learn how to do this and really don't have any good
advice.
Perhaps the site was down or overloaded? Any firewalls to worry about at your
end?
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: antony.akk...@ge.com
> Sent: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 22:31:01 -0800 (PST)
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Read Content from URL to XML format
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> Hi John ,
>
>
>
> I tried this code
>
> ==============
>
> library(RCurl)
>
> library(XML)
>
> script <- getURL("www.r-bloggers.com")
>
>
>
> and now getting an error like ,
>
> b??Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE) : couldn't connect to
> hostb??
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: John Kane [via R] [mailto:ml-node+s789695n4660616...@n4.nabble.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 8:53 PM
> To: Akkara, Antony (GE Power & Water, Non-GE)
> Subject: Re: Read Content from URL to XML format
>
>
>
> Perhaps
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1395528/scraping-html-tables-into-r-data-frames-using-the-xml-package
> may be of help
>
> John Kane
> Kingston ON Canada
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: [R] Read Content from URL to XML format
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>> Hi,
>>
>> i want to know how to read a table values from a URL and get it as XML
>> content.
>> Could anyone please help me out ASAP ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Antony.
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