similar to: RCurl format

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, 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, 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

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

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 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

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"

I am having trouble importing a zoo object after writing it. When I try to import using read.zoo, I get the following error: Error in read.zoo(data_location) : index contains NAs But when I inspect the file I don't have any NAs A sample data (.txt 2KB) can be downloaded at: http://www.mediafire.com/?29dqndxf2do9m9e Thanks for the help, Joe

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 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

I''m creating a new rails app. The application is named BigIdea. Should I create this project using: 1. rails bigidea or 2. rails big_idea I know both will work, but just want to get off to the right start using the proper rails naming convention. Thanks! Brian -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this

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

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 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!

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: