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Dear list members, I encountered this problem and the solution pointed out in a previous thread did not work for me. (e.g. install.packages("RCurl", repos = "http://www.omegahat.org/R") I work with Ubuntu Hardy, and installed R 2.6.2 via apt-get. I really need RCurl in order to use biomaRt ... any help would be greatly appreciated. Best wishes, Emmanuel

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 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.

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 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

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" >

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 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 List, When I try to install tweetR on Ubuntu, I get the error message below. It is a problem with the dependency RCurl. This package is not available for Windows on CRAN, but I would assume that I should have no problem with linux. Any help is much appreciated. R version: 2.12.1 Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) * installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ... checking for curl-config... no

Hello, Some code using RGoogleDocs, which had been working smoothly since the summer, just stopped working. I know that it worked on November 3rd, but it doesn't work today. I've confirmed that the login and password still work when I log in manually. I've confirmed that the URL gives the same error when I paste it into Firefox. I don't know enough about this web service to figure

Hello, I am trying to solve a problem but with no success for the past 4 days. I use the RCurl package with R 2.8.1, and when I try to use the function FTPUpload, it uploads the file but does not stop. It repeats the content of the file without stopping and the destination file keeps getting bigger and bigger. Here is the line that I use :

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 list, i'm trying to install the package RCurl into a linux system running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 but i get compilation errors which i guess should be due to some missing additional software. i've been searching about the R-help archives without success so i hope somebody can point me out to this missing piece. in principle, i have the necessary curl software installed:

Hello all, Is it possible to create web service in R? Any links or book i can refer! My second question is i'm trying to call a web service using RCurl package. The pdf from google doesnt have entire code in it.[ R as web client - RCurl package]. It's not written how to send parameter for a function or i'm missing something. I want to pass parameter to a function of a

Hi, Can anyone manage to login to a google account via RCurl? All info on the web appears to be out of date. (1) both RGoogleDocs and RGoogleTrends on omegahat appears to be withdrawn: http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs/ http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleTrends/ Does anyone know why? (2) The closest I can get is based on code from

I unfortunately haven't received any responses about this problem. We (the company I work for) are willing to discuss payment to someone who is willing to quickly contribute a fix to the RGoogleDocs/RCurl toolchain that will restore write access. Please contact me directly if you're interested. Thank you, -Harlan Harris On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Harlan Harris

Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to use the RGoogleDocs package from OmegaHat, and am having a bit of trouble. I emailed Duncan Temple Lang directly, but didn't receive a response, so I thought I'd try here to see if anyone else can help. I'm using 32-bit R 2.10.1 (Mac OS X), I built RGoogleDocs 0.4-0 from source, and I'm using XML 3.1-0 and RCurl 1.2-0. If I use

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",

I saw a thread from September 24 in which Duncan Temple Lang told us: - The package currently has no Rd files, but there is a brief "user's guide". The package is available from http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs I could not find it by using Tinn-R or RGui's package install tool. Then when I went to the website I saw that package is only available as

Hi! I've performed a Google Scholar Search using a query, let's say "Frank Harrell", and parsed the links to the EndNote references from the resulting HTML code. Now I'd like to download all the references automatically. For this, I have tried to use RCurl, but I can't seem to get it working: I always get error code "403 Forbidden" from the web server.