Re: [R] help with EXPASY HTML form submission in RCurl package

2010-02-15 Thread Sunando Roy
Hi Duncan, I finally got this to work, i.e. to extract my file two pages down. Thanks a lot for your help. I think there is some problem with the HTML source code of "http://www.expasy.ch/tools/protscale.html";. When I use the getHtmlFormDescription function the output that I get is not what I wou

Re: [R] help with EXPASY HTML form submission in RCurl package

2010-02-13 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
Sunando Roy wrote: > > Hi Duncan, > > Thanks for your help. I changed the P but the output that I get is not > what I expect. The form gets aborted without any actual output. I get > the same result with > > postForm("http://www.expasy.ch/tools/protscale.html";) That URL (...protscale.html)

Re: [R] help with EXPASY HTML form submission in RCurl package

2010-02-12 Thread Sunando Roy
Hi Duncan, Thanks for your help. I changed the P but the output that I get is not what I expect. The form gets aborted without any actual output. I get the same result with postForm("http://www.expasy.ch/tools/protscale.html";) just with an added message that there was no input passed on. But wi

Re: [R] help with EXPASY HTML form submission in RCurl package

2010-02-12 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
Sunando Roy wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to submit a form to the EXPASY protscale server ( > http://www.expasy.ch/tools/protscale.html). I am using the RCurl package and > the postForm function available in it. I have extracted the variables for > the form from the HTML source page. According to

[R] help with EXPASY HTML form submission in RCurl package

2010-02-12 Thread Sunando Roy
Hi, I am trying to submit a form to the EXPASY protscale server ( http://www.expasy.ch/tools/protscale.html). I am using the RCurl package and the postForm function available in it. I have extracted the variables for the form from the HTML source page. According to the syntax of postForm, I just n