R help - Apr 2012 - how to write html output (webscraped using RCurl package) into file?

i want
"http://scop.berkeley.edu/astral/pdbstyle/?id=d1fjgc2&output=html",showing
information in webpage to be written in .txt file as it is(i don't want any
html tag)
i am using "RCurl" package
>marathi<-htmlTreeParse("http://scop.berkeley.edu/astral/pdbstyle/?id=d1fjgc2&output=html")
>marathi
>kasam<-marathi$children$html[["body"]][["pre"]][["text"]]
>kasam
> write(kasam,"papita.txt")
Error in cat(list(...), file, sep, fill, labels, append) : 
  argument 1 (type 'list') cannot be handled by 'cat

i want to write kasam, as shown on console into  .txt file


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Le samedi 21 avril 2012 ? 07:05 -0700, sagarnikam123 a ?crit
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> i want
>
"http://scop.berkeley.edu/astral/pdbstyle/?id=d1fjgc2&output=html",showing
> information in webpage to be written in .txt file as it is(i don't want
any
> html tag)
> i am using "RCurl" package
> 
>
>marathi<-htmlTreeParse("http://scop.berkeley.edu/astral/pdbstyle/?id=d1fjgc2&output=html")
> >marathi
>
>kasam<-marathi$children$html[["body"]][["pre"]][["text"]]
> >kasam
> > write(kasam,"papita.txt")
> Error in cat(list(...), file, sep, fill, labels, append) : 
>   argument 1 (type 'list') cannot be handled by 'cat
> 
> i want to write kasam, as shown on console into  .txt file
kasam is a list, not a character string:
> str(kasam)
 Named list()
 - attr(*, "class")= chr [1:5] "XMLTextNode"
"XMLNode"
"RXMLAbstractNode" "XMLAbstractNode" ...

You need to convert it to a character vector first:
write(xmlValue(kasam), "papita.txt")


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