[R] Extracting content from web

[Mike Marchywka]

[ hotmail not marking orig text, top post for clarity]

This is one of my current jihads, along with removing
adjectives where numbers are available, and I'm curious 
if there is a FAQ on this somewhere? Scraping data from
web pages is always a hack, any approach should
include an attempt to fix the problem by contacting the
data source and suggest a better way to make data available.
Since this problem comes up in many contexts, I tend to
stick with linux tools but the R approach is quite similar
often just turning "curl" into "Rcurl" for example. 


http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=R+scraping+web+page







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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 21:02:57 -0800
From: debmidya at yahoo.com
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] Extracting content from web


Hi R Users,

Thanks in advance.



May I request you to assist me for the following please.

Is there any R-package or R Script to extract content(s) from web.

Once again, thank you very much for the time you have given.

Regards,

Deb




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