Re: [R] Rcurl, postForm()

2012-05-28 Thread Sven Duve
On 28/05/12 20:46, Simon Kiss wrote: Dear colleagues, Could I get some assistance using postForm() to scrape the business names and addresses at this website: http://www.brantford.ca/business/LocalBusinessCommunity/Pages/BusinessDirectorySearch.aspx I've read through (http://www.omegahat.org/RC

[R] Rcurl, postForm()

2012-05-28 Thread Simon Kiss
Dear colleagues, Could I get some assistance using postForm() to scrape the business names and addresses at this website: http://www.brantford.ca/business/LocalBusinessCommunity/Pages/BusinessDirectorySearch.aspx I've read through (http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/RCurlJSS.pdf) and scoured the web

[R] RCurl > postForm() not working for me

2012-05-28 Thread Sven D
Hello, I am trying the postForm() function on a very simple webpage: http://www.colby.edu/chemistry/PChem/Hartree.html I am simply trying to fill the "Hartrees" text form with the value "100". But running this: url = "http://www.colby.edu/chemistry/PChem/Hartree.html"; test = postForm(url, H="

[R] RCurl postForm problem

2011-05-23 Thread Scott Chamberlain
Hello, I am using the function postForm to submit queries to a website. When I submit one query I get the query contents back, but when I submit a different query to the same site I get the query results from the previous search. I don't seem to have this problem using GET format searches. I

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

2008-12-10 Thread Tony Breyal
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?

2008-12-09 Thread Felix Andrews
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?

2008-12-09 Thread Tony Breyal
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