[R] R as a web scraping tool using RCurl

Hi List, I am trying to leverage my knowledge of R in trying to use it for tasks that may not make R the best choice for these tasks. I wish to automate a web scraping task, which requires a multi-step procedure: 1) log in to a website 2) Go to a particular page 3) From the drop down menu, click

Re: [R] R as a web scraping tool using RCurl

Try Firefox and an add in called I Macros from www.iopus.com as an simpler alternative read some stuff here http://www.decisionstats.com/2009/01/web-crawling-automation/ regards, Ajay On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Harsh singhal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List, I am trying to leverage my