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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 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"

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, 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

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>

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 am using RCurl's curlPerform command to send an XML string to an HTTP server running on the localhost. The command is something like this: reader <- basicTextGatherer() curlPerform(url="http://127.0.0.1/", httpheader=c('Content-Type' = "text/xml; charset=utf-8"), postfields=toString.XMLNode(xmlRoot(xdoc)), writefunction=reader$update,

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:

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)

Hello, Below is some output that shows my issue. I have a variable x that I read from a file (more on this below) > x [1] "NEW YORK NEW ENGLAND" > gsub(" -", "-", x) # this does not work! [1] "NEW YORK NEW ENGLAND" > Encoding(x) # is x in a special encoding? no [1] "unknown" > y = "NEW YORK -NEW

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 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

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,

Hi All, I am running into what appears to be character size limit in a JSON string when trying retrieve data from either `curlPerform()` or `getURL()`. Here is non-reproducible code [1], but it should shed some light on the problem. # Note that .base.url is the basic url for the API, q is a query, user # is specified, etc. session = getCurlHandle() curl.opts <- list(userpwd

Hi all, I've just installed RGoogleTrends Version:0.2-1 (after compiling it for windows). And when running the most basic command I get the following error: > ans = getGTrends("coupon") Error in curlPerform(url = url, curl = curl, .opts = .opts) : embedded nul in string: '<ff><fe>Y' In addition: Warning message: RS-DBI driver warning: (closing pending

Hi, I have problems downloading complete folders via ftp with R. Single files work fine. I tried Rcurl, but it does not work. This is my code: url = "ftp://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/data/TRMM/Gridded/Derived_Products/3B42_V6/Daily/2009/" filenames = getURL(url, ftp.use.epsv = FALSE, ftplistonly = TRUE, crlf = TRUE) filenames = paste(url, strsplit(filenames, "\r*\n")[[1]], sep =

     Hi everybody, I got a problem with the ftpUpload function from the RCurl package. My goal is to Upload a lot of files from a local directory to a web server. 1st try : for (i in 1:length(file)){       ftpUpload(what=files[i],to=files[i]) } At i=11 I get : (my server has only 10 available open connections available) : Erreur dans curlPerform(url = to, upload = TRUE, readfunction =

Hi all, I'm currently working on an R program where I have to access an FTP server to download some of the data I need. However, the people who post up the files I access are at times inconsistent with regards to time posted, if they post at all, etc.... Here's some of the code I use: library(RCurl) url1 = paste("ftp://user:password at a.great.website.com/",

Dear R-Help, >From reading the help file, it is my understanding the the download.file() function does not support HTTPS connections. So therefore, understandably, the follow produces an error: ### R Code > url <- "https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-October/thread.html" > destfile <- "//PFO-SBS001/Redirected/tonyb/Desktop/R_web_test/tmp.txt" >

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 "_"