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Hi, I am trying to submit a form to the EXPASY protscale server ( http://www.expasy.ch/tools/protscale.html). I am using the RCurl package and the postForm function available in it. I have extracted the variables for the form from the HTML source page. According to the syntax of postForm, I just need to mention the url and assign values to the input mentioned in the HTML code. The code that I am

Hello. I know that it's usually possible to write cookies to a cookie file by removing the curl handle and doing a gc() call. I can do this with getURL(), but I just can't obtain the same results with postForm(). If I use: curlHandle <- getCurlHandle(cookiefile=FILE, cookiejar=FILE) and then do: getURL(http://example.com/script.cgi, curl=curlHandle) rm(curlHandle) gc() it's

I am having trouble with the postForm function in RCurl. I want to send a the command DELETE https://somewebsite.com.json but I can't seem to find it. I could try: postForm(url, _method="DELETE", .opts = list(username:password) ) but I get the error: Error: unexpected input in " postForm(url4, _" this error seems to be due to the underscore "_"

Dear R-Help, I am looking into using the Open Calais web service (http:// sws.clearforest.com/calaisViewer/) for text mining purposes. I would like to use R to post text into one of the forms on their website. In package RCurl, there is a function called postForm(). This sounds like it would do the job. Unfortunately the URL used in the example is no longer valid (i have emailed the maintainer

According to [1] and [2], using RCurl to post a form with basic authentication is done using the postForm method. I'm trying to post generated interpolation data from R onto an HTTP form. The call I'm using is page <- postForm('http://our.server.com/dbInt/new', opts = curlOptions=(userpwd="test:test", verbose=T), profileid = "-1", value="1.801",

Hi, I am starting coding in r and one of the things that i want to do is to scrape some data from the web. The problem that I am having is that I cannot get passed the disclaimer page (which produces a session cookie). I have been able to collect some ideas and combine them in the code below but I dont get passed the disclaimer page. I am trying to agree the disclaimer with the postForm and write

Hi everybody, I think that I am missing something fundamental in how strings are passed from a postForm() call in R to the curl or libcurl functions underneath. For example, I can do the following using curl from the command line: $ curl -d "Archbishop Huxley" "http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/text2people"

Hi RUsers, Suppose I want to see the data on the website url <- "http://www.nseindia.com/content/indices/ind_histvalues.htm" for the index "S&P CNX NIFTY" for dates "FromDate"="01-11-2010","ToDate"="02-11-2010" then read the html table from the page using readHTMLtable() I am using this code webpage <-

Hi, Has anyone successfully used RCurl for posting data to a password-protected site? I have tired using option netrc=1 with both postForm and curlPerform (with postfields option) but can't authenticate. I would happily provide more details if some one has had some experience with this. Thanks very much. Valerie

Hi RUsers, Suppose I want to see the data on the website url <- "http://www.nseindia.com/content/indices/ind_histvalues.htm" for the index "S&P CNX NIFTY" for dates "FromDate"="01-11-2010","ToDate"="02-11-2010" then read the html table from the page using readHTMLtable() I am using this code webpage <-

Hi, I am trying to use a CGI service (Pubchem PUG) via RCurl and am running into a problem where the data must be supplied via POST - but I don't know the keyword for the argument. The data to be sent is an XML fragment. I can do this via the command line using curl: I save the XML string to a file called query.xml and then do curl -d @query.xml

Dear colleagues, Could I get some assistance using postForm() to scrape the business names and addresses at this website: http://www.brantford.ca/business/LocalBusinessCommunity/Pages/BusinessDirectorySearch.aspx I've read through (http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/RCurlJSS.pdf) and scoured the web for tutorials, but I can't crack it. I'm aware that this is probably a pretty basic

Hello, I'm looking for a way in which R can make my live easier. Currently i'm using R convert data from a dataframe to json's and then sending these json's to a rest api using a curl command in the terminal (i'm on a mac). I've been looking for a way to use R for sending data from R to the rest api. My primairy focus was on using R for executing the curl command,

Dear Dr. bernhard cc. r-help Thank you very much for deverlopping rneos package. I read the document of rneos. however, due to my inability, i could not figure-out how to connect with neos server from R environment. let me explain the steps, i took. my laptop is using wireless of my laboratory. to connect the internet, i need proxy address and specific port (that i have mentioned in protocols in

Hi, A frequently seen issue with importing SPSS data files, is that R does not import the 'long variable names'. I built a patch on the R-project's foreign module, in order to import the 'long variable names' from SPSS (record 7, subtype 13). To complete the job, I had to expand the "struct variable" definition to have 64 +1 charachters. I'm not aware of side

Hi R Users, I want to get the data from the url given from 10/09/2012 to 15/10/2012. I don't know how to pass the parameters . ....................................................................................................................................... library(RHTMLForms) > > ff = getHTMLFormDescription("

Hi, I am having trouble submitting a form using the RCurl package. My code runs without errors but doesn't return the table I am after. I have a feeling it is because there are 2 submit buttons on the page and I'm not hitting the right one. I have tried everything I can think of to submit the form correctly but with no luck. My current code is as follows. library(RCurl) library(XML)

Let's say I have some automation tasks where I have to fill a table field on a webpage, and then submit it to the server, and then obtain the returned value (a typical web query), how to do that in R? Thanks a lot!

On 30 November 2016 at 05:08, Dean Michael Berris via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > - Is there a preference between the two options provided above? > - Any other alternatives we should consider? > - Which parts of which options do you prefer, and is there a synthesis of either of those options that appeals to you? Hi Dean, I haven't followed the XRay project

Hi all, I am trying to download some tab separated data from the internet. The data is not available directly at the URL that could be known apriori. There is an intermediate form where start and end dates have to be given to get to the required page. For example, I want to download data for a station 03015795. The form for this station is at: