Hello All,
I am trying to write a routine that loops over some links and parses those links
using htmlParse. The problem is that one of the links may display a pop up
window on top of that link's web page. If there is a pop up, the routine
bombs and I get an error message that the url doesn't exist.
Does the XML package (or perhaps another package) provide a way to deal with
this issue?
I've tried:
for(i in 1:len_links) {
. . .
cc <- try(htmlParse(xurl), silent=T)
if(is(cc,"try-error")) {next}
docc <- htmlParse(xurl)
. . .
}
That doesn't work. Any ideas or help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Winthrop
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