Re: [R] RCurl::postForm() -- how does one determine what the names are of each form element in an online html form?

2008-12-10 Thread Tony Breyal
Thank you Felix and also to the individual who replied off-list. re: html code -- you are both indeed correct that the form elements are named within the html code for a simple form, and i thank you both for letting me know about this. For simple forms i think i will try and write myself a

[R] RCurl::postForm() -- how does one determine what the names are of each form element in an online html form?

2008-12-09 Thread Tony Breyal
Dear R-Help, I am looking into using the Open Calais web service (http:// sws.clearforest.com/calaisViewer/) for text mining purposes. I would like to use R to post text into one of the forms on their website. In package RCurl, there is a function called postForm(). This sounds like it would do