Re: [R] Downloading a .csv through a .jsp url with variable parameters - R code or package?

2010-12-07 Thread Arsenio Staer
Jim, Thanks a lot! works perfectly! now i just use a for loop and rbind to create one dataset with all daily observations. Arsenio -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Downloading-a-csv-through-a-jsp-url-with-variable-parameters-R-code-or-package-tp3070541p3077565.htm

Re: [R] Downloading a .csv through a .jsp url with variable parameters - R code or package?

2010-12-07 Thread jim holtman
Something like this should work, only Sept has 30 days, not 31: > files <- seq(as.Date('2008-09-30'), by = '1 day', length = 250) > input <- paste(".jsp?y=" + , format(files, "%Y") + , "&m=" + , format(files, "%m") + , "&d=" + , forma

Re: [R] Downloading a .csv through a .jsp url with variable parameters - R code or package?

2010-12-06 Thread Arsenio Staer
So i realized putting this raw.untr <- as.data.frame(read.csv(file='...jsp?y=2008&m=09&d=30', header = TRUE, as.is = TRUE)) reads the file prefectly, so i was wondering how can i create a set of dataframes each with observations for one day (say for 3 years with 250 days of data each year =

[R] Downloading a .csv through a .jsp url with variable parameters - R code or package?

2010-12-02 Thread Arsenio Staer
Dear R experts, I'm trying to download a .csv file with daily data on the companies through a javascript url ending in .jsp of the following form: http://... .com/.../.../filename.jsp?y=2004&m=3&d=9 where y = year, m = month and d=day. Accessing the link gives you the .csv for that date. I wa