Re: [R] Opening or activating a URL to access data, alternative to browseURL

2016-10-12 Thread Ryan Utz
Eureka! I wish I could send a box of digital donuts. Thanks so much On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 11/10/2016 7:59 AM, Ryan Utz wrote: > >> Bob/Duncan, >> >> Thanks for writing. I think some of the things Bob mentioned might work, >>

Re: [R] Opening or activating a URL to access data, alternative to browseURL

2016-10-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/10/2016 7:59 AM, Ryan Utz wrote: Bob/Duncan, Thanks for writing. I think some of the things Bob mentioned might work, but I'm still not quite getting there. Below is the example I'm working with: It worked for me when I replaced the browseURL call with a readLines call, as I suggested

Re: [R] Opening or activating a URL to access data, alternative to browseURL

2016-10-11 Thread Ryan Utz
Bob/Duncan, Thanks for writing. I think some of the things Bob mentioned might work, but I'm still not quite getting there. Below is the example I'm working with: #1 browseURL('http://pick18.discoverlife.org/mp/20m?plot= 2=Hypoprepia+fucosa=33.9+-83.3=2011,2012, 2013=build_txt:') # This opens

Re: [R] Opening or activating a URL to access data, alternative to browseURL

2016-09-29 Thread Bob Rudis
The rvest/httr/curl trio can do the cookie management pretty well. Make the initial connection via rvest::html_session() and then hopefully be able to use other rvest function calls, but curl and httr calls will use the cached in-memory handle info seamlessly. You'd need to store and retrieve

Re: [R] Opening or activating a URL to access data, alternative to browseURL

2016-09-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 29/09/2016 3:29 PM, Ryan Utz wrote: Hi all, I've got a situation that involves activating a URL so that a link to some data becomes available for download. I can easily use 'browseURL' to do so, but I'm hoping to make this batch-process-able, and I would prefer to not have 100s of browser

[R] Opening or activating a URL to access data, alternative to browseURL

2016-09-29 Thread Ryan Utz
Hi all, I've got a situation that involves activating a URL so that a link to some data becomes available for download. I can easily use 'browseURL' to do so, but I'm hoping to make this batch-process-able, and I would prefer to not have 100s of browser windows open when I go to download multiple