On Oct 30, 2012, at 10:44 , R. Michael Weylandt wrote: > Hi Jose, > > I think this is more of an r-help question so I'm going to forward > your question there: R-devel is really for the development of R > itself, not development with R.
Er, no! R help is (mainly) for helping beginners. We usually put the dividing line where the answers would become incomprehensible to many of the list readers. So compiler issues and internal C code is off-limits there, but I'd say that so is HTML and ASP. So unless there happens to be a precooked package that fits the query exactly, I'd say that it belongs here. To wit: "This list is intended for questions and discussion about code development in R. Questions likely to prompt discussion unintelligible to non-programmers or topics that are too technical for R-help's audience should go to R-devel, see the posting guide section." > > Cheers, > Michael > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:11 PM, jose ramon mazaira <jram...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi. I'm trying to write an application to retrieve financial data >> (specially bonds data) from FINRA. The web page is served dynamically >> from an asp.net application: >> >> http://cxa.gtm.idmanagedsolutions.com/finra/BondCenter/AdvancedScreener.aspx >> >> I'd like to know if it's possible to fill dynamically the web page >> form from R and, after filling it (with the issuer name), retrieve the >> web page, parse the data, and covert it to appropiate R objects. >> For example, suppose I want to search data for AT&T bonds. I'd like to >> know if it's possible, within R, to fill the page served from: >> >> http://cxa.gtm.idmanagedsolutions.com/finra/BondCenter/AdvancedScreener.aspx >> >> select the "corporate" option and fill with AT&T the field for "Issuer >> name", ask the page to display the results, and retrieve the results >> for each of the bonds issued by AT&T (for example: >> >> http://cxa.gtm.idmanagedsolutions.com/finra/BondCenter/BondDetail.aspx?ID=MDAxOTU3Qko3) >> >> and parsing the data from the web page. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
