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2012 May 19
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Try Giving Invalid Argument Type Error
...I am scraping from web pages, but sometimes they disappear. When that
happens I need to control for it with some sort of function.
This web page is parsed without a problem.
exh<-"NASDAQ"
tic<-"EGHT"
URL<-paste("http://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=financials&btn=istart_date&mode=quarterly_reports&symbol=",
exh,"%3A",tic,"&istart_date=0", sep = "")
doc <- htmlParse(URL)
However, when I change the value of tic it will not.
tic<-"AACOU"
URL<-paste("http://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=financials&bt...