[R] Reading a web page in pdf format

[jim holtman]

You can do it with the base toolkit.  Just read the PDF file in as
text and then extract the data:


> # read in PDF file as text
> x.in <- readLines("http://www.snamretegas.it/italiano/business/gas/bilancio/pdf/bilancio.pdf")
> # find Industriale
> Ind <- grep("Industriale", x.in, value=TRUE)
> # find Termoelettrico
> Ter <- grep("Termoelettrico", x.in, value=TRUE)
> # extract the data
> Ind.data <- sub(".*\\(([\\s0-9,]*)\\).*", "\\1", Ind, perl=TRUE)
> Ter.data <- sub(".*\\(([\\s0-9,]*)\\).*", "\\1", Ter, perl=TRUE)
> Ind.data
[1] "       46,6"
> Ter.data
[1] "       99,3"
>
>

>


On 5/9/07, Vittorio <vdemart1 at tin.it> wrote:
> Each day the daily balance in the following link
>
> http://www.
> snamretegas.it/italiano/business/gas/bilancio/pdf/bilancio.pdf
>
> is
> updated.
>
> I would like to set up an R procedure to be run daily in a
> server able to read the figures in a couple of lines only
> ("Industriale" and "Termoelettrico", towards the end of the balance)
> and put the data in a table.
>
> Is that possible? If yes, what R-packages
> should I use?
>
> Ciao
> Vittorio
>
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Jim Holtman
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