> On May 19, 2016, at 7:49 AM, Marcelo Perlin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > First time posting here. > > I have a CRAN package called GetTDData that downloads and reads public data > from a government website ( > http://www.tesouro.fazenda.gov.br/tesouro-direto-balanco-e-estatisticas). > > Recently (today), the website has changed its structure by removing > permanent links of the files and creating a "random" html address for the > files that really matter. This means that when I download the souce html > code, I don't have the information for the actual links, but just a bunch > of code. > > In the past I have dealed with this type of problem by forcing the > renderization of the page using RSelenium with firefox or PhantomJS and > then capturing the desired href locations. > > My question is, if integrate my code with RSelenium using firefox or > PhantonJS, will it pass on all arquitectures (win, linux, solaris) of CRAN?
I dn't have a lot of experience at this but I can say that at least one person whose experience I trust recentlyreported in Rhelp that RSelenium tends to be a fragile interface. Nonetheless, he does use it on occasion and it clearly "works" on more than one platform. If your code is not confidential and the website has at least a guest login capacity, you could post it here and ask for trial runs on whatever platform(s) you may not have testing capacities for. > > -- > Marcelo Perlin > Professor Adjunto | Escola de Administração -- David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
