Re: [R] R: R: Is there a way to extract some fields data from HTML pages through any R function ?

> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of mau...@alice.it > Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 11:28 PM > To: Martin Morgan > Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] R: R: Is there a way to extract som

Re: [R] R: R: Is there a way to extract some fields data from HTML pages through any R function ?

If the question is to how download and read into R an Excel file at a known location into an R data frame then try this: library(gdata) URL <- "http://mirecords.umn.edu/miRecords/download_data.php?v=1"; DF <- read.xls(URL) See ?read.xls for more info. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:27 AM, wrote: > It

[R] R: R: Is there a way to extract some fields data from HTML pages through any R function ?

It helps. But it is overly sophisticated. I have already downloaded and used the Excel file containing the validated stuff. Since there are R commands to download gzip as well as FASTA files, I wonder whether it is possible to automatically download the Excel file from http://mirecords.umn.edu