Hi List, I am trying to leverage my knowledge of R in trying to use it for tasks that may not make R the best choice for these tasks. I wish to automate a web scraping task, which requires a multi-step procedure: 1) log in to a website 2) Go to a particular page 3) From the drop down menu, click on a particular link 4) From the tabulated data presented, choose relevant information based on a filter on the date column.
I am not highly acquainted with RCurl or CURL for that matter. I've used Perl extensively and know that such tasks are more suitable for such scripting tools as Perl which have an efficient regex engine and a great number of modules/packages for such web scraping tasks. I am investigating RCurl's capabilities since I wish to use R, assuming no knowledge of Perl or other more suitable web-scraping tools. I would greatly appreciate any links/information/tutorials/book suggestions that will allow me to use RCurl to get the above tasks accomplished. I have looked at the Omegahat RCurl links and the manuals present there but would like R users to share their personal experiences and resources they may have used to use and implement RCurl. Thanks Harsh Singhal "Senior Jedi General" Decision Systems Mu Sigma Inc. Chicago, IL [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.