[R] operating website through R

Suzen, Mehmet msuzen at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 17:31:18 CEST 2014


You just need to pass the parameters on Giovanni_cgi.pl with action=ASCII+Output

On 11 April 2014 17:19, eliza botto <eliza_botto at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Users of R,
> I wanted to operate certain slots of this website (http://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/Giovanni/tovas/TRMM_V7.3B42_daily.2.shtml) through R. I wanted to operate Latitude, longitude section, plot type, begin and end year and ASCII Output Resolution. The filling of these slot will produce and output file with I want to D/L at a certain location in my PC.
> I have a matrix of 2 columns and 3000 rows which contain Latitude and Longitude information which i want to upload automatically in the slots of website. I tried to use certain web scarping techniques in R but to no use.
> Is there a way of doing it in R.
> thank you very much in advance,
> Eliza
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