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I am trying to read some data off the zillow site. Newbie to xml, html, parsing and the xml package. I've been able to load the web page I'm interested with the following code but I'm not sure of the next step to get the information I'm interested in into R : library(XML) url <- "http://www.zillow.com/homes/511 W Lafa...

Hi, I'm looking for help extracting some information of the zillow website. I'd like to do this 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 includ...

...atezip=",tbl$Township,"%2C+PA", sep='') new.add <- sub("^( )+","", new.add) new.add <-data.frame(gsub("( )+",'+', new.add)); names(new.add) <- "ParseAddress" hm <- function(x) { url.zill <-paste("http://www.zillow.com/webservice/GetDeepSearchResults.htm?zws-id=X1-ZWz1bup03e49vv_5kvb6&address=",x, sep="") ############## problem line is next ################################# zdoc <-xmlTreeParse(url.zill, useInternalNode=TRUE, isURL=TRUE) ############# problem line above ###########...

...ouse When Inventory Is Tight As the housing market continues its recovery, prospective home buyers in some areas may have found, much to their dismay, that the inventory of houses for sale is somewhat limited, and sellers are receiving multiple offers. A recent analysis by the real estate site Zillow, for instance, found that while some improvement has occurred, the inventory of homes for sale nationally in April was down about 14 percent from the same time last year. The National Association of Realtors, meanwhile, also reported a decrease in inventory in many markets compared with a year...

...from insurance company Allstate gave a presentation at the Strata conference, and compared SAS, Hadoop, R and Revolution R for fitting Poisson models with 150 million rows of data: http://bit.ly/SL3YJp R was mentioned in many talks at the Strata conference, including these by Booz Allen Hamilton, Zillow, and Metamarkets: http://bit.ly/SL3YJr I gave a new webinar presentation on data science, big data and R (slides and replay available): http://bit.ly/SL3YJq According to a new Gartner report, companies will spend $232B on "big data" over the next 5 years: http://bit.ly/SL40B6 A time-se...