dear R user, I need a function that download the code of web page as html, to further parse it. something like>site="http://www.R-project.com" >code=function(site) >code!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The R Project for Statistical Computing</title> <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="R.css"> </head> <FRAMESET cols="1*, 4*" border=0> <FRAMESET rows="120, 1*"> <FRAME src="logo.html" name="logo" frameborder=0> <FRAME src="navbar.html" name="contents" frameborder=0> </FRAMESET> <FRAME src="main.shtml" name="banner" frameborder=0> <noframes> <h1>The R Project for Statistical Computing</h1> Your browser seems not to support frames, here is the <A href="navbar.html">contents page</A> of the R Project's website. </noframes> </FRAMESET> is there any function that can perform similar task? thank you in advance. John [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Try this: code <- readLines(site) On 13/01/2008, John Lande <john.lande77 at gmail.com> wrote:> dear R user, > > I need a function that download the code of web page as html, to further > parse it. > > something like > > >site="http://www.R-project.com" > >code=function(site) > >code > > !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <title>The R Project for Statistical Computing</title> > <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> > <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="R.css"> > </head> > > <FRAMESET cols="1*, 4*" border=0> > <FRAMESET rows="120, 1*"> > <FRAME src="logo.html" name="logo" frameborder=0> > <FRAME src="navbar.html" name="contents" frameborder=0> > </FRAMESET> > <FRAME src="main.shtml" name="banner" frameborder=0> > <noframes> > <h1>The R Project for Statistical Computing</h1> > > Your browser seems not to support frames, > here is the <A href="navbar.html">contents page</A> of the R Project's > website. > > </noframes> > </FRAMESET> > > is there any function that can perform similar task? thank you in advance. > > John > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >-- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paran?-Brasil 25? 25' 40" S 49? 16' 22" O
See
?download.file
?url
Omegahat package RCurl
You do realize that the 'code of web page' is just what you download?
E.g. (working example)
readLines(url("http://www.r-project.org"))
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, John Lande wrote:
> dear R user,
>
> I need a function that download the code of web page as html, to further
> parse it.
>
> something like
>
>> site="http://www.R-project.com"
Sic! Not a valid address.
>> code=function(site)
>> code
>
> !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>The R Project for Statistical Computing</title>
> <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico"
type="image/x-icon">
> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"
type="image/x-icon">
> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="R.css">
> </head>
>
> <FRAMESET cols="1*, 4*" border=0>
> <FRAMESET rows="120, 1*">
> <FRAME src="logo.html" name="logo" frameborder=0>
> <FRAME src="navbar.html" name="contents"
frameborder=0>
> </FRAMESET>
> <FRAME src="main.shtml" name="banner"
frameborder=0>
> <noframes>
> <h1>The R Project for Statistical Computing</h1>
>
> Your browser seems not to support frames,
> here is the <A href="navbar.html">contents page</A>
of the R Project's
> website.
>
> </noframes>
> </FRAMESET>
>
> is there any function that can perform similar task? thank you in advance.
>
> John
>
> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
--
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