Re: [R] RCurl::postForm() -- how does one determine what the names are of each form element in an online html form?

Thank you Felix and also to the individual who replied off-list. re: html code -- you are both indeed correct that the form elements are named within the html code for a simple form, and i thank you both for letting me know about this. For simple forms i think i will try and write myself a functio

Re: [R] RCurl::postForm() -- how does one determine what the names are of each form element in an online html form?

2008/12/10 Tony Breyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear R-Help, > > I am looking into using the Open Calais web service (http:// > sws.clearforest.com/calaisViewer/) for text mining purposes. I would > like to use R to post text into one of the forms on their website. > > In package RCurl, there is a fu

[R] RCurl::postForm() -- how does one determine what the names are of each form element in an online html form?

Dear R-Help, I am looking into using the Open Calais web service (http:// sws.clearforest.com/calaisViewer/) for text mining purposes. I would like to use R to post text into one of the forms on their website. In package RCurl, there is a function called postForm(). This sounds like it would do t