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 the basic require(scrapeR) require(XML) require(RCurl) doc <-htmlTreeParse("http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?CIK=MSFT&Find=Search&owner=exclude&action=getcompany";) str(doc) I get a large number of items in the data frame that I don't know how to interpret. Both tables <- readHTMLTable(doc) and list<-xmlToList(doc) result in errors. Any (positive) guidance would be much appreciated. --John J. Sparks, Ph.D. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
