[R] Help Parsing String? From HTML

[Joshua Ulrich]

On Sun, Jan 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM Sparks, John via R-help
<r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I am scraping some data from the internet and I got what I want but in a big long string (sort of) and can't figure out a way to parse it.
>
What site are you scraping? There may be an easier way to get the data on it.

> What I have gotten to is
>
> > mystring
> {xml_nodeset (1)}
> [1] <p>{\n  "symbol": "ABI",\n  "open": 21.04,\n  "high": 21.05,\n  "low": 20.06,\n  "close": 20.2,\n  "volume": 938700,\n  "from": "2005-01-04"\n}</p>
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> But I can't find a way to isolate the individual elements such as symbol, open, etc.
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> I'll bet there is someone out there with a lot more experience at html parsing than me who can see a way to solve this in minutes.
>
> Any guidance would be appreciated.
>
> --John Sparks
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