[R] grep and XML

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

Try this:

library(rjson)
j <- fromJSON(file =
'https://raw.github.com/currencybot/open-exchange-rates/master/latest.json')
j$rates$USD

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Simon Kiss <sjkiss at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all:
> I struggle a lot scraping web data. I still haven't got a handle on the XML package.
> I'd like to get particular exchange rates from this table:
> https://raw.github.com/currencybot/open-exchange-rates/master/latest.json
> This is the code that I'm working with:
> library(RCurl)
> library(XML)
>
> txt<-getURL("https://raw.github.com/currencybot/open-exchange-rates/master/latest.json")
> txt<-htmlParse(txt, asText=TRUE)
> txt<-  getNodeSet(txt, '//p')
> So, I can get the node, properly but then, if I try soething like this:
> grep(c('USD'), txt)
>
> I get:
> integer(0)
>
> Can anyone suggest a way forward?
> Yours, Simon KIss
>
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