Thanks, the second approach worked fine on Windows.
--JJS
On Thu, August 15, 2013 8:38 am, Jeffrey Dick wrote:
> Sorry, I can't generate an error when running those commands in R on Linux
> 64-bit. But if I move to Windows (R version 3.0.1, XML_3.98-1.1), I get a
> different error ...
>
>> requir
Sorry, I can't generate an error when running those commands in R on Linux
64-bit. But if I move to Windows (R version 3.0.1, XML_3.98-1.1), I get a
different error ...
> require(XML)
Loading required package: XML
> doc <- htmlTreeParse("
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?CIK=MSFT&Find=Searc
Thanks so much for looking into this for me.
Unfortunately, I get an error when I execute your code. Is there a
library that you loaded that I haven't?
require(scrapeR)
require(XML)
require(RCurl)
doc<-htmlTreeParse("http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?CIK=MSFT&Find=Search&owner=exclude&acti
Hi,
There are many occurrences of the CIK number in the page source. This pulls
out the first node containing it:
node <- getNodeSet(doc[[1]], "//link[@rel='alternate']" )
>From there you can extract the number. Here's one way to do it.
strsplit(strsplit(unlist(node)[[5]], "CIK=")[[1]][2], "&ty
Dear R Helpers,
I would like to pull the CIK number from the web page
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?CIK=MSFT&Find=Search&owner=exclude&action=getcompany
If you put this web page into your browser you will see the CIK number in
red on the left side of the page near the top.
When I try
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