Try this:
library(XML)
readHTMLTable('
http://www.invescopowershares.com/products/holdings.aspx?ticker=PGX', which
= 13, header = TRUE)
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:07 PM, AndrewPage <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am using RCurl to try and download data from a website, but I'm having
> trouble finding out what URL to use. Here is the site:
>
> http://www.invescopowershares.com/products/holdings.aspx?ticker=PGX
>
> See how in the upper right, above the displayed sheet, there's a link to
> download the data as a .csv file? When I hit "copy url" and paste into
> getURL in R, it doesn't work. That's no surprise because there isn't a URL
> in what gets pasted. I was just wondering if there's any way around this.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Andrew
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