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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 includes the homedetails url, price

Sorry, I listed the wrong package in the header of my previous post! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dear List, has anyone of you experienced a significant increase in the time it takes to parse an URL via "htmlTreeParse()" when this function is called

I'm interested in parsing an html page. I should use XML, right? Could you somebody show me some example code? Is there a tutorial for this package?

Dear All, Can someone please guide me how to get the certain part from a long html language? e.g. "<td><a href='2005-01.html'>2005-01</a></td><td><a href='2006-01.html'>2006-01</a></td><td><a href='2007-01.html'>2007-01</a></td><td><a

Hello, I was wondering if there is a function in R that imports tables directly from a HTML document. I know there are functions (say, getURL() from {RCurl} ) that download the entire page source, but here I refer to something like google document's function importHTML() (if you don't know this function, go check it, it's very useful). Anyway, if someone of something that does this

You can use htmlTreeParse and xpathApply from the XML library. something like: xpathApply( htmlTreeParse("http://blabla", useInt=T), "//td", function(x) xmlValue(x)) should do it. Gamma wrote: > > anyone care to explain how to read a html table, it's streaming data > (updated every second) and i am looking for a suitable function. > > The imported html

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

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 Lafayette St, Norristown, PA_rb" doc <-doc <-

Hi, I'm trying to get data from web page and modify it in R. I have a problem with encoding. I'm not able to get encoding right in htmlTreeParse command. See below > library(RCurl) > library(XML) > > site <- getURL("http://www.aarresaari.net/jobboard/jobs.html") > txt <- readLines(tc <- textConnection(site)); close(tc) > txt <- htmlTreeParse(txt,

Dear R-help, The following code downloads an html document into variable 'doc' and then stores an internal representation into variable 'html.tree'. Even if the html code is malformed, this still works which is fantastic. However, as in the example below, i do get some ouput from R in the console which i would like to suppress somehow, so i can keep my window a bit cleaner. I

Can't seem to get the code below working. It gets stuck on line 24 inside the function hm; comments show the line in question. The function hm is called by sapply and is at the bottom of the code. Other stuff above line 24 works correctly including the first couple of lines of the function hm. Should I be using a different apply function or am I doing something wrong with xmlTreeParse ?

Hi, Why is the following retuning a nodset of length 0: > library(XML) > test <- xmlTreeParse( > "http://www.unimod.org/xml/unimod_tables.xml",useInternalNodes=TRUE) > getNodeSet(test,"//modifications_row") Thanks for any hint. Joh

Dear R-help, I want to download the text from a web page, however what i end up with is the html code. Is there some option that i am missing in the RCurl package? Or is there another way to achieve this? This is the code i am using: > library(RCurl) > my.url <- 'https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help' > html.file <- getURI(my.url, ssl.verifyhost = FALSE,

Dear colleagues, I'm trying to parse the html content from this webpage:

Hello again, Another stumble here that is defeating me. I try: a<-readLines(url("http://feeds.feedburner.com/grokin")) t<-XML::xmlTreeParse(a, ignoreBlanks=TRUE, replaceEntities=FALSE, asText=TRUE) elem<- XML::getNodeSet(XML::xmlRoot(t),"/rss/channel/item")[[1]] And I get: Start tag expected, '<' not found Error: 1: Start tag expected, '<' not

Dear List, I am not really familiar with any other language than R, but I?ve heard that in other languages there is something called ?self referencing?. Here?s what I?m trying to get an answer for: Suppose there is a function that takes as its input a value of a slot of an S4 object. The function itself is stored in another slot of the SAME S4 object. Is it then possible to have the function

I deal with a huge amount of Biology data stored in different databases. The databases belongig to Bioconductor organization can be accessed through Bioconductor packages. Unluckily some useful data is stored in databases like, for instance, miRDB, miRecords, etc ... which offer just an interactive HTML interface. See for instance http://mirdb.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi,

Dear list, I make use of cached objects extensively for time consuming computations and yesterday I happened to notice some very strange behavior in that respect: When I execute a given computation whose result I'd like to cache (tried both saving it as '.Rdata' and via package 'R.cache' which uses a own filetype '.Rcache'), my R session consumes about 200 MB of

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)

Hi all, I want to download data from those two different sources, directly into R : http://www.rateinflation.com/consumer-price-index/usa-cpi.php http://eaindustry.nic.in/asp2/list_d.asp First one is CPI of US and 2nd one is WPI of India. Can anyone please give any clue how to download them directly into R. I want to make them zoo object for further analysis. Thanks, -- View this message in