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2012 Feb 29
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Using a FOR LOOP to name objects
...ion. As in the
following example (which doesn't work quite well)
my_list<-c("A","B","C","D","E","F")
for(i in c(1:length(my_list))){
url<- "http://finance.yahoo.com"
doc = htmlTreeParse(url, useInternalNodes = T)
tab_nodes = xpathApply(doc, "//table[@cellpadding = '3']")
*my_list[i]*=lapply(tab_nodes, readHTMLTable) #problem is in this line
names(*my_list[i]*)=c("Ins","outs")
}
The problem is that in iteraction #1, I need the info to be stored at an
object called "...