R help - Oct 2010 - Extract table from a webpage

Dear R-group,

I've been able to use the XML package for getting relevant tables from
webpages for my analysis.
I'm stuck with this slightly more interactive problem involving clicking a
link

Fro this link .....
http://www.etintelligence.com/etig/et500/et500Ranking.jsp

I want to get the data table into R. I was able to do it using XML .. but
now I want to get the whole list of 500 companies . for this . I need to
find a way to click on the "View All" link and then get the data into
R
(hopefully).
Any suggestions how to go about it?

Thanks,
S

Maybe you should take a look at the view all button.
>From there you can guess the next link:
http://www.etintelligence.com/etig/et500/et500Ranking.jsp?param=1&msg=1&year=2010&rslt=500

this should give you the whole list

Bart
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