Dear R-help, There seems to be a web page I am unable to download using RCurl. I don't understand why it won't download:
> library(RCurl) > my.url <- > "http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?_r=2"; > getURL(my.url) [1] "" Other web pages are ok to download but this is the first time I have been unable to download a web page using the very nice RCurl package. While i can download the webpage using the RDCOMClient, i would like to understand why it doesn't work as above please? > library(RDCOMClient) > my.url <- > "http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?_r=2"; > ie <- COMCreate("InternetExplorer.Application") > txt <- list() > ie$Navigate(my.url) NULL > while(ie[["Busy"]]) Sys.sleep(1) > txt[[my.url]] <- ie[["document"]][["body"]][["innerText"]] > txt $`http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/ 07program.html?_r=2` [1] "Skip to article Try Electronic Edition Log ... Many thanks for your time, C.C Windows Vista, running with administrator privileges. > sessionInfo() R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom. 1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom. 1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] RDCOMClient_0.92-0 RCurl_0.94-0 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.8.1 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
