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

Dear, I want to read XML documents, add child nodes to some elements and store everything back as an XML document. I've tryed the following: doc <- xmlTreeParse("file.xml") QTListNode<-xmlElementsByTagName(xmlRoot(doc)[[1]],"tagname") append.xmlNode(QTListNode[[1]],newXMLNode(name ="Norm", attrs = NULL)) saveXML(doc, file = "out.xml",

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

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

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

I'm trying to scrape football projections from accuscore.com for the different positions (right now the projections are set to zeros, but that will change). I can get the QB projections, but I can't get the projections for any of the other positions (e.g., RB). How can I get the RB projections? I'm not sure what the actual website for the RB and other projections is. When I go to

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+

Hello dear R-help mailing list. Looks like the same issue in Russian: library(RCurl) library(XML) u = " http://www.cian.ru/cat.php?deal_type=2&obl_id=1&room1=1" a = getURL(u) a # Here - the Russian is fine. a2 <- htmlParse(a) a2 # Here it is a mess... None of these seem to fix it: htmlParse(a, encoding = "windows-1251") htmlParse(a, encoding =

Is there any function to write a XML structure, after it was read using xmlTreeParse? Ex: library(XML) x <- xmlTreeParse("Irpf2008/aplicacao/dados/12345678901/12345678901.xml") # write it... Alberto Monteiro PS: please, brazilians, don't be offended by my foul language!

Dear R Helpers, I am getting an error message from the try function that I don't understand so I am hoping that someone can help. I am scraping from web pages, but sometimes they disappear. When that happens I need to control for it with some sort of function. This web page is parsed without a problem. exh<-"NASDAQ" tic<-"EGHT"

I'm using the function htmlParse() in the XML package, and I need a little bit help on error handling while parsing an HTML page. So far I can use either the default way: # error = xmlErrorCumulator(), by default library(XML) doc = htmlParse("http://www.public.iastate.edu/~pdixon/stat500/") # the error message is: # htmlParseStartTag: invalid element name or the tryCatch()

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

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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 all, Sorry for the rather uninformative subject, but the error I get is not very informative either. When using the XML and RCurl package to retrieve the content of an html page, htmlTreeParse fails, printing out the beginning of the HTML: Error in htmlTreeParse(getURL(url)) : File <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

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, 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