On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Scott Waichler wrote:
[snip]
> > should I go that route and avoid trying to parse webpages? I was hoping
> > to learn
> > how to extract information from webpages in general so I could apply the
> > techniques
> > for other purposes too.
> >
>From the Introduction to R Data Import/Export (1.8.1):
....
In general, statistical systems like R are not
particularly well suited to manipulations of large-scale
data. ...
And
... it can be rewarding to use tools such as `awk' and
`perl' to manipulate data before import or after export.
...
You imply that you wish to learn a general technique, therefore
I'd vote for a general purpose language. Perl is a good choice.
HTH
Itay
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