In a message of Wed, 19 Aug 2015 06:32:46 -0700, ryguy7272 writes:
Well, yes, I was originally trying to do it it R, but I couldn't get
it working, so I thought I'd try to do it in Python. That was a
sample R script. Can I do essentially the same thing in Python? Can
I read the XML from the
In a message of Wed, 19 Aug 2015 04:57:44 -0700, ryguy7272 writes:
I'm trying to get R to download the data from here:
http://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde/report_format/latest-July-2015-New-Format.xml
# install and load the necessary package
install.packages(XML)
library(XML)
# Save the URL
Well, yes, I was originally trying to do it it R, but I couldn't get it
working, so I thought I'd try to do it in Python. That was a sample R
script. Can I do essentially the same thing in Python? Can I read the XML
from the web?
On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 8:21:50 AM UTC-4, Laura Creighton wrote:
In a message of Wed, 19 Aug 2015 04:57:44 -0700, ryguy7272 writes:
I'm trying to get R to download the data from here:
http://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde/report_format/latest-July-2015-New-Format.xml
# install
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 04:57:44 -0700, ryguy7272 wrote:
[stuff]
Downloading xml from the web is easy
writing csv or txt is easy
The tricky bit is converting the xml you have into the csv or text data
you want.
And to do that, you need to understand the structure of the xml data that
you are
On Aug 19, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Denis McMahon denismfmcma...@gmail.com wrote:
Downloading xml from the web is easy
writing csv or txt is easy
The tricky bit is converting the xml you have into the csv or text data
you want.
curl | xml2 | 2csv
http://www.ofb.net/~egnor/xml2/ref
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On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 1:14:44 PM UTC-4, Petite Abeille wrote:
On Aug 19, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Denis McMahon wrote:
Downloading xml from the web is easy
writing csv or txt is easy
The tricky bit is converting the xml you have into the csv or text data
you want.
