I haven't used it extensively myself, and can't speak to it's current state
but on quick inspection RHTMLForms seems worth a look for what you want.

http://www.omegahat.org/RHTMLForms/

~G

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 t 5:38 AM, Paul Gilbert <pgilbert902@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know of an easy way to do this in R. I've been doing something
> similar with python scripts called from R. If anyone knows how to do this
> with just R, I would appreciate hearing too.
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 12-10-29 04:11 PM, jose ramon mazaira wrote:
>
>> Hi. I'm trying to write an application to retrieve financial data
>> (specially bonds data) from FINRA. The web page is served dynamically
>> from an asp.net application:
>>
>> http://cxa.gtm.**idmanagedsolutions.com/finra/**
>> BondCenter/AdvancedScreener.**aspx<http://cxa.gtm.idmanagedsolutions.com/finra/BondCenter/AdvancedScreener.aspx>
>>
>> I'd like to know if it's possible to fill dynamically the web page
>> form from R and, after filling it (with the issuer name), retrieve the
>> web page, parse the data, and covert it to appropiate R objects.
>> For example, suppose I want to search data for AT&T bonds. I'd like to
>> know if it's possible, within R, to fill the page served from:
>>
>> http://cxa.gtm.**idmanagedsolutions.com/finra/**
>> BondCenter/AdvancedScreener.**aspx<http://cxa.gtm.idmanagedsolutions.com/finra/BondCenter/AdvancedScreener.aspx>
>>
>> select the "corporate" option and fill with AT&T the field for "Issuer
>> name", ask the page to display the results, and retrieve the results
>> for each of the bonds issued by AT&T (for example:
>>
>> http://cxa.gtm.**idmanagedsolutions.com/finra/**
>> BondCenter/BondDetail.aspx?ID=**MDAxOTU3Qko3<http://cxa.gtm.idmanagedsolutions.com/finra/BondCenter/BondDetail.aspx?ID=MDAxOTU3Qko3>
>> )
>>
>> and parsing the data from the web page.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
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