Hi, I am starting coding in r and one of the things that i want to do is to
scrape some data from the web.
The problem that I am having is that I cannot get passed the disclaimer
page (which produces a session cookie). I have been able to collect some
ideas and combine them in the code below but I dont get passed the
disclaimer page.
I am trying to agree the disclaimer with the postForm and write the cookie
to a file, but I cannot do it succesfully....
The webpage cookies are written to the file but the value is FALSE... So
any ideas of what I should do or what I am doing wrong with?
Thank you for your help,

library(RCurl)
library(XML)

site <- "
http://www.wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/graph/graph_e.html?mode=text&stn=05ND012&prm1=3&syr=2012&smo=09&sday=15&eyr=2012&emo=09&eday=18"

postForm(site, disclaimer_action="I Agree")

cf <- "cookies.txt"

no_cookie <- function() {
        curlHandle <- getCurlHandle(cookiefile=cf, cookiejar=cf)
        getURL(site, curl=curlHandle)

        rm(curlHandle)
        gc()
}

if ( file.exists(cf) == TRUE ) {
        file.create(cf)
        no_cookie()
}
allTables <- readHTMLTable(site)
allTables

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