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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, all! I would love if someone could help me figure this out. I can''t seem to see why the following fails: Here''s the spec: it "should redirect back to the index page" do Coupon.should_receive (:new).with({"name"=>@expectedName,"amount"=>@expectedAmount}).and_return(@coupon) @coupon.should_receive(:save) response.should

Hi, I am working with the RCurl package and I am using the curlPerform function for an soap-query. The problem is that the code is usually working well, but sometimes the connection gets lost. So I wrote a while-loop to repeat the query if anything might happened so that the same query runs again, but if the query-faults it takes a very long time for the repetition. My question is if there

Hello World! I'm working on my thesis right now (something about financial immunization) I'm currently working in the basics, doing a matrix that lists the present value (or weight) of every combination of coupon rate and term to maturity, this is the code I have right now which is giving me a "longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length" #start

All, I''m missing something simple, I think. I am writing a spec to say that my CouponController should create a new coupon from the form parameters, then set the current user. Here''s the spec: describe CouponController, "When posting to save_coupon" do before(:each) do @expectedName = "pepper''s" @expectedAmount = 5 coupon =

I have data in the following form: ID COUPON0 COUPON1 COUPON2 COUPON3 1 1 1000 1001 1002 2 2 NA NA NA 3 1000 1003 NA 1004 4 1001 NA 1005 NA 5 1002 NA NA NA 12 1003 NA NA 1006 7 1005 NA NA NA 8 1004 1007 NA NA 9 1006 NA NA NA 26

Hi, I'm trying to download some data from the web and am running into problems with 'embedded null' characters. These seem to indicate to R that it should stop processing the page so I'd like to remove them. I've been looking around and can't seem to identify exactly what the character is and consequently how to remove it. # THE CODE WORKS ON THIS PAGE library(RCurl)

I have this strange behavior and I don''t undertand why. Here is the thing: I have this record in my payment model: 1.9.3p286 :019 > u.payment.last Payment Load (0.3ms) SELECT "payments".* FROM "payments" WHERE "payments"."user_id" = 10 => [#<Payment id: 37, bank_name: "Mercantil", plan: "Plan Uno", date:

I am a bit confused about counter_cache here. The API docs http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Associations/ClassMethods.html say that only the belongs_to association can take the :counter_cache option. When I try to use it on a has_many I get an "unknown key(s): counter_cache" error. Why would this be the case? belongs_to means that this model has a field with an id

Dear all I'm currently facing the following situation. We have run a marketing campaign providing to some members one of two type of coupones. In addition to this, some of these members were already touched in the short past by another campaign. So I have the following dataset, where: -mixpre3M= is a flag variable telling us if the customer had already purchased somethign in the past

I''m racking my brain trying to figure out a good method for a coupon system for our ecommerce site. Basically We have a variety of consditions for certain coupons and a variety of effects. Some examples: 1. 5% off any order 2. Free shipping on orders over $50 3. Free shipping on an order if a product foo is part of the order 4. 10% off product foo 5. 5% off entire order if product

Dear all, I am having a problem downloading webpages through R when i run it in the DOS window under Windows Vista Basic. I have downloaded the batchfiles from http://code.google.com/p/batchfiles/ and have successfully set the PATH. I open up 'Command Prompt' in Vista and type (after the C:\...> stuff): ### START ### C:\Users\Karen>Rscript -e "library(RCurl);

Hello, I am trying to access Microsoft Live Search Using SOAP through R. In R I am using the RCurl packages to make the calls. I have the following situation that looks crazy and cannot figure out how to solve it: #SOAP Request library(RCurl) h = basicTextGatherer() body='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15"?> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope

# Hi all, # trying to run the following example code # from 'RQuantLib' package... HullWhite <- list(term = 0.055, alpha = 0.03, sigma = 0.01, gridIntervals = 40) Price <- rep(as.double(100),24) Type <- rep(as.character("C"), 24) Date <- seq(as.Date("2006-09-15"), by = '3 months', length = 24) callSch <- data.frame(Price, Type,

Hello, I don't know if the problem originates from R-devel 3.2 or Rcurl itself. I post this message to the R-devel list and to the author of RCurl (duncan at r-project.org). > library("RCurl") Le chargement a n?cessit? le package : bitops > print(sessionInfo()) R Under development (unstable) (2015-02-03 r67717) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit) Running under:

Hello, I am trying to use R to download a bunch of .csv files such as: http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/occurrences/download?q=Banksia+ericifolia I have tried the following and neither work: a<- getURL(" http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/occurrences/download?q=Banksia+ericifolia") Error in curlPerform(curl = curl, .opts = opts, .encoding = .encoding) : embedded nul in string: and

When I work with a .html.erb file, the autotest rspec on rails stuff doesn''t understand the file to map it to the right test. I wanted to submit a patch for this, but I''m unsure where the specs would be to update. I found the necessary mapping in rspec_autotest.rb, but I can''t find any specs anywhere. Help? I just need to have /app/views/coupon/index.html.erb to map to

Folks, I want to scrape a series of web-page sources for strings like the following: "/en/Ships/A-8605507.html" "/en/Ships/Aalborg-8122830.html" which appear in an href inside an <a> tag inside a <div> tag inside a table. In fact all I want is the (exactly) 7-digit number before ".html". The good news is that as far as I can tell the the <a>

Dear friends, I hope this email finds you all well. This is the dataset I am working with: dput(random_mod12_data2) structure(list(Index = c(1L, 5L, 11L, 3L, 2L, 8L, 9L, 4L), x = c(5, 13, 25, 9, 7, 19, 21, 11), n = c(500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500), r = c(100, 211, 391, 147, 122, 310, 343, 176), ratio = c(0.2, 0.422, 0.782, 0.294, 0.244, 0.62, 0.686, 0.352)), row.names = c(NA, -8L),

Dear R helpers,     Yesterday I had raised following query which was addressed by Mr Ellison. The query and the wonderful solution as provided by Mr. Ellison are as given below.    ## PROBLEM   I am calculating the 'Yield to Maturity' for the Bond with following characteristics.    Its a $1000 face value, 3 year bond with 10% annual coupon and is priced at 101. The yield to maturity can be