Hi,
I am having trouble submitting a form using the RCurl package. My code runs
without errors but doesn't return the table I am after. I have a feeling it
is because there are 2 submit buttons on the page and I'm not hitting the
right one. I have tried everything I can think of to submit the form
correctly but with no luck.
My current code is as follows.
library(RCurl)
library(XML)
page<-postForm("http://tatts.com/racing/outletsearch.aspx",
`main_0$racingmiddle_0$CityTextBox`="",
`main_0$racingmiddle_0$PostcodeTextbox`="4000",
`main_0$racingmiddle_0$StateDropDownList`="Queensland",
`main_0$racingmiddle_0$SearchButton`="List Outlets")
doc<-htmlParse(page,asText=TRUE)
readHTMLTable(doc)
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've spent a considerable amount of
time trying to solve this problem and this is as close as I have got to a
solution.
Cheers,
Jai Vaughan
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252
LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] XML_3.2-0.2 RCurl_1.5-0.1 bitops_1.0-4.1
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