[R] How to download this data

boB Rudis bob at rudis.net
Tue Aug 25 20:49:07 CEST 2015


Looks like you can get what you need from
http://www.nseindia.com/homepage/Indices1.json on that page.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is not a simple question. The data are in an html-formatted web
> page. You must "scrape" the html for the data and read it into an R
> table (or other appropriate R data structure). Searching (the web) on
> "scrape data from html into R"  listed several packages that claim to
> enable you to do this "easily". Choose what seems best for you.
>
> You should also install and read the documentation for the XML
> package, which is also used for this purpose, though those you find
> above may be slicker.
>
> Disclaimer: I have no direct experience with this. I'm just pointing
> out what I believe are relevant resources.
>
> Cheers,
> Bert
> Bert Gunter
>
> "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge
> is certainly not wisdom."
>    -- Clifford Stoll
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Christofer Bogaso
> <bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to download data from below page directly onto R.
>>
>> http://www.nseindia.com/live_market/dynaContent/live_watch/equities_stock_watch.htm
>>
>> Could you please assist me how can I do that programmatically.
>>
>> Thanks for your time.
>>
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