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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 Unfortunately the URL used in the example is no longer valid (i have emailed the maintainer

Update taking into account the answer of Prof Ripley. ___________________________________________________ Below is a reproducing example that produces the crash. If I do exactly the same in R 3.1.2, it works perfectly. I have the lastest libcurl library (curl @7.40.0) installed So, perhaps indeed that the problem originates from RCurl, but the problem appears only in R 3.2. But before to

I am getting the following error while trying to install the RCurl library. I have checked that the curl and the libcurl.so.3 is already installed in the /usr/bin > install.packages("RCurl") --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done trying URL 'http://cran.hostingzero.net/src/contrib/RCurl_0.9-3.tar.gz' Content type

Hi Patrick, Greetings from !(sunny) Pittsburgh. What's the scoop on RCurl on windows (XP)? I've tried to install RCurl_0.92-0.zip and RCurl_0.9-3.zip, with both R 2.7.2 and R 2.8.0 from the RGUI (utils:::menuInstallLocal), and get the error "Windows binary packages in zipfiles are not supported". which (according to google's one and only hit) comes from a perl script.

I have some problem in running R-cran's Demography package. The hmd.mx function need Rcurl. I tried to install RCurl, but meet the following error: ********************************************************************* ... * installing *source* package ?RCurl? ... checking for curl-config... no Cannot find curl-config ERROR: configuration failed for package ?RCurl? * removing

I am having trouble getting an install of RCurl to work properly on a Unix server. The steps I have taken are: 1. installed cUrl from source without difficulty 2. installed RCurl from source using the command ~/R_HOME/R-devel/bin/R CMD INSTALL -l ~/R_HOME/R-devel/library ~/RCurl_0.8-0.tar.gz I received no errors during this install 3. when I go back to R and require(RCurl), I get >

I am having trouble getting an install of RCurl to work properly on a Unix server. The steps I have taken are: 1. installed cUrl from source without difficulty 2. installed RCurl from source using the command ~/R_HOME/R-devel/bin/R CMD INSTALL -l ~/R_HOME/R-devel/library ~/RCurl_0.8-0.tar.gz I received no errors during this install 3. when I go back to R and require(RCurl), I get >

Hi everyone, I'm trying to send an HTTP request using RCurl that only requests the response header, not the actual content. http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html says you can do this by using the following option: curl --head http://www.something.com/ However, I can't figure out how to do this when using 'getURL()', for example. Here's what I tried: FIRST TRY txt

Dear list, I would like to call a Kerberos-authenticated web-service from within R. Curl can do it: $ curl --negotiate -u : "http://my.web.service/" so I would expect that RCurl also has the capability, but I have not been able to find the correct options to set. listCurlOptions() does not return anything with negotiate, and searching the source of RCurl, the only thing I found was

Hi, for checking purposes, I setup a multiple sub-architecture R installation following this post from Simon Urbanek: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2011-August/061755.html It all went fine. The only change I made to Simon's procedure was to install with: make prefix=~/bin/R/2.15 install instead of sudo make install rhome=/usr/local/R/2.15. I am now trying to install RCurl in

I have 64-bit R 2 12 0 installed on Solaris 10 of Sun Sparc. When I tried to install RCurl, it failed with the following lines, ............... Version has CURLOPT_SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE libcurl version: libcurl 7.19.6 configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating src/Makevars ** libs cc -xc99 -m64 -xarch=sparcvis2 -I/apps/sparcv9/R-2.12.0/lib/R/include -I/opt/csw/include

Hi, I am trying to access a website and read its content. The website is a restricted access website that I access through a proxy server (which therefore requires me to enable cookies). I have problems in allowing Rcurl to receive and send cookies. The following lines give me: library(RCurl) library(XML) url <- "http://www.theurl.com" content <- readHTMLTable(url) content

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 List, I am trying to leverage my knowledge of R in trying to use it for tasks that may not make R the best choice for these tasks. I wish to automate a web scraping task, which requires a multi-step procedure: 1) log in to a website 2) Go to a particular page 3) From the drop down menu, click on a particular link 4) From the tabulated data presented, choose relevant information based on a

Dear all, I am trying to install RCurl (because I want to install devtools) and to do so I've been informed that I must install one of the packages libcurl4-openssl-dev libcurl4-nss-dev No matter which one I install I get the following error from R: * installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ... ** package ‘RCurl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked checking for curl-config...

Dear R-Users, I am having some trouble getting an installation of RCurl 0.8-1 to work properly on a Debian (Etch) machine. The command 'R CMD INSTALL RCurl_0.8-1.tar.gz' yields the following error: Installing *source* package 'RCurl' ... checking for curl-config... no Cannot find curl-config ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RCurl' I do know that a file is

There are some CSV file from the link below. I'm having trouble installing the package. Is this the package I have to use or is there another one I need to use? If so how do I get this one loaded. https://www.enmax.com/Power/Energy+Retailers/Settlement+Reports/Profile+settlement+report.htm install.packages("RCurl", repos =

Hello, I am having trouble getting the curlPerform function to authenticate using the .netrc file. From the documentation I've read it certainly seems as though this function should be able to authenticate via the .netrc file. The example I am using here comes from the "R as a Web Client- the RCurl package" paper and demonstrates using the .netrc file to access the

Hi I'm trying to use a bioconductor package (KEGGSOAP) which relies on Rcurl and SSOAP. As an example, a function exists: > list.organisms function () { orgs <- matrix(unlist(.SOAP(KEGGserver, "list_organisms", "", action = KEGGaction, xmlns = KEGGxmlns), use.names = FALSE), ncol = 2, byrow = TRUE) temp <- orgs[, 2] names(temp)

Hi everyone, I have to fetch about 300 to 500 zipped archives from a remote ftp server. Each of the archive is about 1Mb. I know I can get it done by using download.file() in R, but I am curious that is there a faster way to do this using RCurl. For example, are there some parameters that I can set so that the connection does not need to be rebuilt....etc. A even simpler question is, how can I