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2009 Jun 30
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How to pass parameters to htmlParse Bank of Canada html pages
To get USDCAD rates from Bank of Canada, we first go
url <- "http://banqueducanada.ca/en/rates/exchange-avg.html"
select 12 months for Rates for the past and click "Get Rates" button. Then
the page moves to
address <- "http://banqueducanada.ca/cgi-bin/famecgi_fdps"
and the rates show in the html page.
htmlParse() can read the html document but
html...