Hmm,

Rcurl may be able to help you. Not sure I have not played with the "query"
abilities.

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Erik Gregory <egregory2007@yahoo.com>wrote:

> R-Help,
>
> I'm trying to obtain some data from a webpage which masks the URL from the
> user,
> so an explicit URL will not work.  For example, when one navigates to the
> web
> page the URL looks something like:
> http://137.113.141.205/rpt34s.php?flags=1 (changed for privacy, but i'm
> not sure
> you could access it anyways since it's internal to the agency I work for).
> The site has three drop-down menus for "Site", "Month," and "Year".  When a
> combination is selected of these, the resulting URL is
> always http://137.113.141.205/rpt34s (nothing changes, except "flags=1" is
> dropped, so what I need to be able to do is write something that will
> navigate
> to the original URL, then select some combination of "Site", "Month", and
> "Year," and then submit the query to the site to navigate to the page with
> the
> data.
> Is this a capability that R has as a language?  Unfortunately, I'm
> unfamiliar
> with html or php programming, so if this question belongs in a forum on
> that I
> apologize.  I'm trying to centralize all of my code for my analysis in R!
>
> Thank you,
> -Erik Gregory
> Student Assistant, California EPA
> CSU Sacramento, Mathematics
>
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