Re: [Rd] Retrieving data from aspx pages

2012-11-01 Thread jose ramon mazaira
than R to be installed on the client machine. But if the object you > get back is ASPX, then you either need to parse it directly, or convert > it to JSON, or something else you can deal with. I suspect that will be > fairly specific to a particular web site, but I don't really know

Re: [Rd] Retrieving data from aspx pages

2012-11-01 Thread jose ramon mazaira
gt; <mailto:pgilbert...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I don't know of an easy way to do this in R. I've been doing >> something similar with python scripts called from R. If anyone knows >> how to do this with just R, I would appreciate hearing too.

Re: [Rd] Retrieving data from aspx pages

2012-11-01 Thread jose ramon mazaira
teraction you would be able get > the URI so you could post to the next page. Maybe you can do that, but I > have not discover how. If you know how, I would appreciate a real > working example. > > Paul > > On 12-10-31 12:14 PM, jose ramon mazaira wrote: >> I'd li

[Rd] Retrieving data from aspx pages

2012-10-30 Thread jose ramon mazaira
Hi. I'm trying to write an application to retrieve financial data (specially bonds data) from FINRA. The web page is served dynamically from an asp.net application: http://cxa.gtm.idmanagedsolutions.com/finra/BondCenter/AdvancedScreener.aspx I'd like to know if it's possible to fill dynamically t