[R] access to webpage code

Sun Jan 13 17:51:07 CET 2008

See

?download.file
?url

Omegahat package RCurl

You do realize that the 'code of web page' is just what you download?
E.g.  (working example)

readLines(url("http://www.r-project.org"))

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, John Lande wrote:

> dear R user,
>
> I need a function that download the code of web page as html, to further
> parse it.
>
> something like
>
>> site="http://www.R-project.com"

Sic!  Not a valid address.

>> code=function(site)
>> code
>
> !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>The R Project for Statistical Computing</title>
> <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="R.css">
> </head>
>
> <FRAMESET cols="1*, 4*" border=0>
> <FRAMESET rows="120, 1*">
> <FRAME src="logo.html" name="logo" frameborder=0>
> <FRAME src="navbar.html" name="contents" frameborder=0>
> </FRAMESET>
> <FRAME src="main.shtml" name="banner" frameborder=0>
> <noframes>
> <h1>The R Project for Statistical Computing</h1>
>
> Your browser seems not to support frames,
> here is the <A href="navbar.html">contents page</A> of the R Project's
> website.
>
> </noframes>
> </FRAMESET>
>
> is there any function that can perform similar task? thank you in advance.
>
> John
>
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>
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