Hi R Users,
I want to get the data from the url given from 10/09/2012 to 15/10/2012.
I don't know how to pass the parameters .

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library(RHTMLForms)
>
> ff = getHTMLFormDescription("
http://www.bseindia.com/markets/equity/EQReports/slbshortcell.aspx?expandable=3¶m=0<http://www.bseindia.com/markets/equity/EQReports/slbshortcell.aspx?expandable=3&param=0>")

> ff
$aspnetForm
HTML Form:
http://www.bseindia.com/markets/equity/EQReports/slbshortcell.aspx?expandable=3¶m=0<http://www.bseindia.com/markets/equity/EQReports/slbshortcell.aspx?expandable=3&param=0>

ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$GetQuote1$txtscrip_code: [ Scrip code/Scrip Name
]
ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$txtDate: [  ]
ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$txtTodate: [  ]
myDestination: #,
http://www.bseindia.com/static/markets/mutualfunds/BSEStarMF.aspx?expandable=1,
http://www.bsebti.com/, http://www.bsesme.com/, http://www.cdslindia.com/,
http://www.bseindia.com/iccl/about_iccl.aspx, http://www.mkttech.in/,
http://www.bseindia.com/about/members_portal.asp, Group Websites, BSE STAR
MF, BSE Institute Ltd, BSE SME Platform, CDSL, ICCL, Marketplace
Technologies, Members Portal
myDestination1: #, http://hindi.bseindia.com/, http://marathi.bseindia.com/,
http://gujarati.bseindia.com/, Select Language, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
txtscrip: [ Scrip Name / Code ]
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g = createFunction(ff[[1]])

here after how to call the function like this and getting the table out of
it.
xx = g("10/09/2012 ", "15/10/2012")
 expecting your reply.
thanks
veepsirtt

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:10 PM, <veepsirtt@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Duncan
>
> How to pass the parameters to this web form?.
> year="2012" ,month="August"
> I am not getting the table values.
>
> thanking you
> veepsirtt
> options(RCurlOptions = list(useragent = "R"))
> library(RCurl)
> url <- "http://www.bseindia.com/histdata/categorywise_turnover.asp"
> wp = getURLContent(url)
>
> library(RHTMLForms)
> library(XML)
> doc = htmlParse(wp, asText = TRUE)
> form = getHTMLFormDescription(doc)[[1]]
> fun = createFunction(form)
>  o = fun(mmm = "9", yyy = "2012",url="
> http://www.bseindia.com/histdata/categorywise_turnover.asp")
>
> table = readHTMLTable(htmlParse(o, asText = TRUE),
>                         header = TRUE,
>                         stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
> table
>
>
>
>
> On 11/4/10 2:39 AM, sayan dasgupta wrote:
> > Hi RUsers,
> >
> > Suppose I want to see the data on the website
> > url <- "http://www.nseindia.com/content/indices/ind_histvalues.htm"
> >
> > for the index "S&P CNX NIFTY" for
> > dates "FromDate"="01-11-2010","ToDate"="02-11-2010"
> >
> > then read the html table from the page using readHTMLtable()
> >
> > I am using this code
> > webpage <- postForm(url,.params=list(
> >                        "FromDate"="01-11-2010",
> >                        "ToDate"="02-11-2010",
> >                        "IndexType"="S&P CNX NIFTY",
> >                        "Indicesdata"="Get Details"),
> >                  .opts=list(useragent = getOption("HTTPUserAgent")))
> >
> > But it doesn't give me desired result
>
> You need to be more specific about how it fails to give the desired result.
>
> You are in fact posting to the wrong URL. The form is submitted to a
> different
> URL -
> http://www.nseindia.com/marketinfo/indices/histdata/historicalindices.jsp
>
>
>
> >
> > Also I was trying to use the function getHTMLFormDescription from the
> > package RHTMLForms but there we can't use the argument
> > .opts=list(useragent = getOption("HTTPUserAgent")) which is needed for
> > this
> > particular website
>
> That's not the case. The function RHTMLForms will generate for you does
> support
> the .opts parameter.
>
> What you want is something along the lines:
>
>
>  # Set default options for RCurl
>  # requests
> options(RCurlOptions = list(useragent = "R"))
> library(RCurl)
>
>  # Read the HTML page since we cannot use htmlParse() directly
>  # as it does not specify the user agent or an
>  # Accept:*.*
>
> url <- "http://www.nseindia.com/content/indices/ind_histvalues.htm"
> wp = getURLContent(url)
>
>  # Now that we have the page, parse it and use the RHTMLForms
>  # package to create an R function that will act as an interface
>  # to the form.
> library(RHTMLForms)
> library(XML)
> doc = htmlParse(wp, asText = TRUE)
>   # need to set the URL for this document since we read it from
>   # text, rather than from the URL directly
>
> docName(doc) = url
>
>   # Create the form description and generate the R
>   # function "call" the
>
> form = getHTMLFormDescription(doc)[[1]]
> fun = createFunction(form)
>
>
>   # now we can invoke the form from R. We only need 2
>   # inputs  - FromDate and ToDate
>
> o = fun(FromDate = "01-11-2010", ToDate = "04-11-2010")
>
>   # Having looked at the tables, I think we want the the 3rd
>   # one.
> table = readHTMLTable(htmlParse(o, asText = TRUE),
>                         which = 3,
>                         header = TRUE,
>                         stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
> table
>
>
>
>
> Yes it is marginally involved. But that is because we cannot simply read
> the HTML document directly from htmlParse() because the lack of Accept(&
> useragent)
> HTTP header.
>
> >
> >
> > Thanks and Regards
> > Sayan Dasgupta
> >
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