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I am using htmlParse from XML library on a paricular website. Sometimes code fails, sometimes it works, most of the time id doesn't and i cannot see why. The file i am trying to parse is  http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-markets/international-markets/indices/home/sp-500.html?page=0 Sometimes the following code works n<-readHTMLTable(htmlParse(url)) But most of the

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, beginner to R and was having some problems scraping data from tables in html using the XML package. I have included some code below. I am trying to loop through a series of html pages, each of which contains a single table from which I want to scrape data. However, some of the pages are blank - and so it throws me an error message when it gets to htmlParse(). The loop then closes out and I

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>

library(XML) download.file('http://polya.umdnj.edu/polya_db2/gene.php?llid=109079&unigene=&submit=Submit','index.html') tables=readHTMLTable("index.html",error=function(...){}) tables readHTMLTable gives me the following errors. Could somebody let me know how to suppress them? Opening and ending tag mismatch: center and table htmlParseEntityRef: expecting

Hi, I am using XML::readHTMLTable and getting the below error. Does anyone know why? Does this function not work with https? I didn't see anything in help about that. > library(XML) > wampage<-readHTMLTable('https://hr-workforce-analytics.llnl.gov/wf_pi_pop.html',1) Error in htmlParse(doc) : File https://hr-workforce-analytics.llnl.gov/wf_pi_pop.html does not exist Dan

Hi, I can't get the colClasses option to work in the readHTMLTable function of the XML package. Here's a code fragment: require("XML") doc <- "http://www.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html" table <- getNodeSet(htmlParse(doc),"//table") [[2]] # The main table is the second one because it's embedded in the page table. xt

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("

I am trying to scrape a manual from web. For privacy reasons, I cannot write here the exact URL, anyway, the structure is as follows: https://home.lala.com/bibi/blabla/chapter_i_organization/101_contracts/whatever/,DanaInfo=intranet.lala.com+ https://home.lala.com/bibi/blabla/chapter_i_organization/125_bills/,DanaInfo=intranet.lala.com+

Hi I am using Version R 2.15 and I haven't been able read html table. Following is my code and error message. Error in htmlParse(doc) : error in creating parser for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team theurl <- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" tables <- readHTMLTable(theurl) Regards, Kiung [[alternative HTML version

I would like to be able to submit a list of URLs of various webpages and extract the "content" i.e. not the mark-up of those pages. I can find plenty of examples in the XML library of extracting links from pages but I cannot seem to find a way to extract the text. Any help would be greatly appreciated - I will not know the structure of the URLs I would submit in advance. Any

Hello Folks, I'm working on trying to scrape my first web site and ran into a issue because I'm really don't know anything about regular expressions in R. library(XML) library(RCurl) site <- "http://thisorthat.com/leader/month" site.doc <- htmlParse(site, ?, xmlValue) At the ?, I realize that I need to insert a regex command which will decipher the contents of the

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 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

I am trying to parse a webpage using the htmlParse command in XML package as follows: library(XML) u = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population" doc = htmlParse(u) I get the following error: Error in htmlParse(u) : error in creating parser for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population I am using a R 2.13.1 (32 bit version) on a 64 bit Windows. (I tried installing it in

Hello dear R-help mailing list. I wish to be able to have htmlParse work well with Hebrew, but it keeps to scramble the Hebrew text in pages I feed into it. For example: # why can't I parse the Hebrew correctly? library(RCurl) library(XML) u = "http://humus101.com/?p=2737" a = getURL(u) a # Here - the hebrew is fine. a2 <- htmlParse(a) a2 # Here it is a mess... None of

To get USDCAD rates from Bank of Canada, we first go url <- "http://banqueducanada.ca/en/rates/exchange-avg.html" select 12 months for Rates for the past and click "Get Rates" button. Then the page moves to address <- "http://banqueducanada.ca/cgi-bin/famecgi_fdps" and the rates show in the html page. htmlParse() can read the html document but

Here is my code. there are three method to get text to be parded by htmlParse function. 1.file on mycomputer options(encoding="gbk") library(XML) xmltext1 <- htmlParse("/home/tiger/Desktop/27174.htm" ) #/home/tiger/Desktop/27174.htm is the file of http://www.jb51.net/article/27174.htm downloaded on my computer. 2.url options(encoding="gbk")

Hello All, I am trying to write a routine that loops over some links and parses those links using htmlParse.  The problem is that one of the links may display a pop up window on top of that link's web page.  If there is a pop up, the routine bombs and I get an error message that the url doesn't exist. Does the XML package (or perhaps another package) provide a way to deal with this

Dear colleagues, each time I use htmlParse, R crashes or hangs. The url I'd like to parse is included below as is the results of a series of basic commands that describe what I'm experiencing. The results of sessionInfo() are attached at the bottom of the message. The thing is, htmlTreeParse appears to work just fine, although it doesn't appear to contain the information I need (the