R help - Dec 2011 - RHTMLForms / Scrape data from website that needs a parameter in-putted

Hi,

I'm trying to get a list of addresses from
http://tatts.com/racing/outletsearch based on a list of postcodes (zip
codes) and states. For example, I'm looking for State = 'Northern
Territory' and Postcode = '0800'. The list I'm working off is
about 500
long so I was hoping to find a way to script this in R.

I regularly us readLines and the XML library to scrape data but had no luck
finding a solution using these methods. After some serious Googling it
seems to me RHTMLForms is the way to go. I have gone through every example
I can find and tried to apply it to my problem but with no success. I would
be happy to provide more detail about the errors I'm getting if that would
help, the problem is I have been getting quite a variation of errors and
I'm not sure what would be appropriate to post.

I don't know if I'm missing something simple or whether I'm trying
to wrong
approach. I would greatly appreciate any direction anyone may be able to
give me.

I'm using R 2.13.1 on Windows 7 6.1.

Cheers,
Jai Vaughan

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