[R] Scraping a web page
hadley wickham
h.wickham at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 01:04:43 CET 2009
> If you're after text, then it's probably a matter of locating the element
> that encloses the data you want-- perhaps by using getNodeSet along with an
> XPath[1] that specifies the element you are interest with. The text can
> then be recovered using the xmlValue() function.
And rather than trying to find that path by hand, do it interactively
with http://www.selectorgadget.com/
Hadley
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http://had.co.nz/
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