Thank you Duncan.
I remember seeing in your documentation that you have used this
'verbose=TRUE' argument in functions before when trying to see what is
going on. This is good. However, I have not been able to get it to
work for me. Does the output appear in R or do you use some other
external
clair.crossup...@googlemail.com wrote:
Thank you Duncan.
I remember seeing in your documentation that you have used this
'verbose=TRUE' argument in functions before when trying to see what is
going on. This is good. However, I have not been able to get it to
work for me. Does the output
Thank you. The output i get from that example is below:
d = debugGatherer()
getURL(http://uk.youtube.com;,
+ debugfunction = d$update, verbose = TRUE )
[1]
d$value()
text
About to connect() to uk.youtube.com port 80 (#0)\n Trying
208.117.236.72... connected\nConnected to
Some Web servers are strict. In this case, it won't accept
a request without being told who is asking, i.e. the User-Agent.
If you use
getURL(http://www.youtube.com;,
httpheader = c(User-Agent = R (2.9.0
you should get the contents of the page as expected.
(Or with URL
opps, i meant:
toString(readLines(http://uk.youtube.com;))
toString(readLines(http://uk.youtube.com;))
[1] !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\
\http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd\;, , ,
\thtml lang=\en\, , !-- machid: 302 --, head, , \t,
Cheers Duncan, that worked great
getURL(http://uk.youtube.com;, httpheader = c(User-Agent = R (2.8.1)))
[1] !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\
\http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd\;\n\n\
[etc]
May I ask if there was a specific manual you read to
clair.crossup...@googlemail.com wrote:
Cheers Duncan, that worked great
getURL(http://uk.youtube.com;, httpheader = c(User-Agent = R (2.8.1)))
[1] !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\
\http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd\;\n\n\
[etc]
May I ask
Hi, i ran your getURL example and had the same problem with
downloading the file.
## R Start..
library(RCurl)
toString(getURL(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?_r=2;))
[1]
## R end.
However, if it is interesting that if you manually save the page
clair.crossup...@googlemail.com wrote:
Dear R-help,
There seems to be a web page I am unable to download using RCurl. I
don't understand why it won't download:
library(RCurl)
my.url -
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?_r=2;
getURL(my.url)
[1]
Duncan Temple Lang wrote:
clair.crossup...@googlemail.com wrote:
Dear R-help,
There seems to be a web page I am unable to download using RCurl. I
don't understand why it won't download:
library(RCurl)
my.url -
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