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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Am Stat
>Sent: Wed 8/1/2007 2:19 PM
>To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
>Subject: [R] Extracting a website text content using R
>Dear useR,
>Just wandering whether it is possible that there is any function in R could
>let me get the text contents for a certain website.
>Thanks a lot!
>Best,
>Leon
Is this what you had in mind?
> foo <- scan(url("http://cran.r-project.org/";), what = "character")
Read 69 items
> paste(unlist(foo), collapse = " ")
[1] "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//IETF//DTD HTML//EN > <html> <head> <title>The
Comprehensive R Archive Network</title> <link rel=\"icon\" href=\"favicon.ico\"
type=\"image/x-icon\"> <link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"favicon.ico\"
type=\"image/x-icon\"> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\"
href=\"R.css\"> </head> <FRAMESET cols=\"1*, 4*\" border=0> <FRAMESET
rows=\"120, 1*\"> <FRAME src=\"logo.html\" name=\"logo\" frameborder=0> <FRAME
src=\"navbar.html\" name=\"contents\" frameborder=0> </FRAMESET> <FRAME
src=\"banner.shtml\" name=\"banner\" frameborder=0> <noframes> <h1>The
Comprehensive R Archive Network</h1> Your browser seems not to support frames,
here is the <A href=\"navbar.html\">contents page</A> of CRAN. </noframes>
</FRAMESET>"
Try the search phrase
cran scan url
in Google for more hits on
info about R functions that
can deal with URLs.
In R try
> apropos("URL")
[1] "contourLines" "URLdecode" "URLencode" "browseURL"
"contrib.url" "main.help.url" "url.show"
[8] "loadURL" "read.table.url" "scan.url" "source.url" "url"
SteveM
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