Dear R-help, I want to download the text from a web page, however what i end up with is the html code. Is there some option that i am missing in the RCurl package? Or is there another way to achieve this? This is the code i am using:
> library(RCurl) > my.url <- 'https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help' > html.file <- getURI(my.url, ssl.verifyhost = FALSE, ssl.verifypeer = FALSE, > followlocation = TRUE) > print(html.file) I thought perhaps the htmlTreeParse() function from the XML package might help, but I just don't know what to do next with it: > library(XML) > htmlTreeParse(html.file) Many thanks for any help you can provide, Tony Breyal > sessionInfo() R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom. 1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom. 1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] XML_1.94-0 RCurl_0.9-4 ______________________________________________ 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.
