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...text file, and then read in the text file with read.csv(). # this is the actual page I'm trying to acquire text from: web.pg <- readLines("http://www.airweb.org/?page=574") # then parsed in hopes of an easier structure to work with: web.pg <- htmlTreeParse(file=web.pg, ignoreBlanks=TRUE) Now I have a lovely html tree, but don't know the best way to get just the text components (job descriptions, job titles, etc...) as they appear on the web site. I'd like to do a little text mining and make a wordcloud using the text. Can anybody suggest a method to achieve this...

Hello again, Another stumble here that is defeating me. I try: a<-readLines(url("http://feeds.feedburner.com/grokin")) t<-XML::xmlTreeParse(a, ignoreBlanks=TRUE, replaceEntities=FALSE, asText=TRUE) elem<- XML::getNodeSet(XML::xmlRoot(t),"/rss/channel/item")[[1]] And I get: Start tag expected, '<' not found Error: 1: Start tag expected, '<' not found When I modify the second line in "a" to remove the foll...

...eadHTMLTable(htmlParse(url)) But most of the time it would return the following error coming from htmlParse: Error: failed to load HTTP resource Error is coming from the following line in htmlParse code:     ans <- .Call("RS_XML_ParseTree", as.character(file), handlers, as.logical(ignoreBlanks), as.logical(replaceEntities), as.logical(asText), as.logical(trim), as.logical(validate), as.logical(getDTD), as.logical(isURL), as.logical(addAttributeNamespaces), as.logical(useInternalNodes), as.logical(isHTML), as.logical(isSchema), as.logical(fullNamespaceInfo), as.character(encoding), as.lo...

....6.18-194.17.1.el5xen #1 SMP Wed Sep 29 13:30:21 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > x <- xmlTreeParse(fileName) *** caught segfault *** address 0x500001c4f, cause 'memory not mapped' Traceback: 1: .Call("RS_XML_ParseTree", as.character(file), handlers, as.logical(ignoreBlanks), as.logical(replaceEntities), as.logical(asText), as.logical(trim), as.logical(validate), as.logical(getDTD), as.logical(isURL), as.logical(addAttributeNamespaces), as.logical(useInternalNodes), FALSE, as.logical(isSchema), as.logical(fullNamespaceInfo), as.character(encoding)...

...or lazy loading ** help *** installing help indices ** building package indices ** testing if installed package can be loaded *** caught segfault *** address 0x500001c4f, cause 'memory not mapped' Traceback: 1: .Call("RS_XML_ParseTree", as.character(file), handlers, as.logical(ignoreBlanks), as.logical(replaceEntities), as.logical(asText), as.logical(trim), as.logical(validate), as.logical(getDTD), as.logical(isURL), as.logical(addAttributeNamespaces), as.logical(useInternalNodes), FALSE, as.logical(isSchema), as.logical(fullNamespaceInfo), as.character(encoding)...