R help - Oct 2010 - Read from a website

Something similar to this was discussed recently, but I'm unable to find the
thread.

 

I want to read from a site where I need to enter the date into a form before
I am presented with the CSV link. E.g. like reading ticker data from yahoo
(but assuming you HAVE to enter the dates and click on request).

 

How do I simulate this from R?

 

Thanks for the help.

 


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Hmm,

RCurl might have something on this.

otherwise pull you can figure out their scheme and just construct the url
from scratch.

when you finish filling in the form, look at the url they construct. do it a
few times
and you can just emulate that. I've done that in the past without problems.
depends on the site.


On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Santosh Srinivas <
santosh.srinivas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Something similar to this was discussed recently, but I'm unable to
find
> the
> thread.
>
>
>
> I want to read from a site where I need to enter the date into a form
> before
> I am presented with the CSV link. E.g. like reading ticker data from yahoo
> (but assuming you HAVE to enter the dates and click on request).
>
>
>
> How do I simulate this from R?
>
>
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>
>
>
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