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...1 W Lafayette St, Norristown, PA_rb" doc <-doc <- htmlTreeParse(url1, isURL=TRUE) doc I'd like to be able to pull the following information into R href home details string : /homedetails/236-Arundel-Ave-Horsham-PA-19044/9933810_zpid/#{scid=hdp-site-map-bubble-address} value for Zestimate \ Price: $239,000 Beds : 3 Baths: 1.0 Sqft :1630 I noticed all that information is in "doc". The section of doc where the information is contained is shown below. How do I go about extracting this information and getting it into R for the general case where the address in url will change...

Having a hard time understanding the help files for tryCatch. Looking for a little help with the following statement which sits inside a for loop zest[i] <- tryCatch(sapply(getNodeSet(zdoc, "//zestimate/amount"), xmlValue), error=function() zest[i] <-"NA") zest is a numeric vector If the sapply statement evaluates to an error, I'd like to set the value of zest[i] to NA and continue with the loop. Suggestions ? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com...

...TRUE, isURL=TRUE) ############# problem line above ################################## f$zpid <- sapply(getNodeSet(zdoc, "//result/zpid"), xmlValue) f$zest.low <-sapply(getNodeSet(zdoc, "//valuationRange/low"), xmlValue) f$zest <- sapply(getNodeSet(zdoc, "//zestimate/amount"), xmlValue) rm(zdoc) return(f) } j <-sapply(new.add, FUN=hm) print(zest) -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Stuck-can-t-get-sapply-and-xmlTreeParse-working-tp3644894p3644894.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

...is for the general case where I manually change the address by modifying the url (see code below). With the url containing the address, I'd like to be able to extract the same information each time. The specific information I'd like to be able to extract includes the homedetails url, price (zestimate), number of beds, number of baths, and the Sqft. All this information is shown in a bubble on the webpage. I use the code below to try and do this but it's not working. I know the infomation I'm interested in is there because if I print out "doc", I see it all in one area. I'...