Re: [R] Downloading data directly from internet

2013-09-15 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi Ron, It looks like the data you want is generated by javascript; if so Rcurl will not be able to retrieve it for you. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14491598/how-do-i-download-the-source-code-for-a-webpage and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9778076/how-to-view-webpage-source-code-u

[R] Downloading data directly from internet

2013-09-15 Thread Ron Michael
Hi,   I need to download data from this site: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/agricultural/grain-and-oilseed/corn_quotes_globex.html     I tried with following set of codes:     library(RCurl) library(XML)   aa <- getURL("http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/agricultural/grain-and-oilseed/corn_quotes