Re: [R] How to choose a button and scrape the website data

That website uses javascript to submit the form (and doesn't work in Chrome). You could build a javascript interpreter in R, have parse the page, and then use the various javascript to submit the form. R just isn't the right tool for that type of interaction. Performing the task you want--as descr

Re: [R] How to choose a button and scrape the website data

tions? From: Tyler Ritchie [mailto:tyler.ritc...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 1:40 PM To: Guang Dai Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] How to choose a button and scrape the website data That website uses javascript to submit the form (and doesn't work in Chrome).

[R] How to choose a button and scrape the website data

hi all, I'm working on scrapping some website data to build a database. Under most cases, I can use package XML to get the dataset. However, some of the website doesn't give a explicit address of the downloaded tables. To be more specific, for example, I'm interested in the website http://et