Actually, in looking again, I noticed a "download in csv" link on the page, and this appears to provide a csv -formatted table that then can trivially be read into R by, e.g. read.csv() .
So maybe all the html (or JSON) stuff can be ignored. -- Bert Bert Gunter "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." -- Clifford Stoll On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > I agree that this is a tricky task... even more so than using a"scraping" > package because the page is built dynamically. This will take someone with > skills in multiple web technologies to decipher the web page scripts to > figure out how to manipulate the server to give you the data, because it > isn't actually in the web page. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > On August 25, 2015 11:23:26 AM PDT, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> > wrote: >>This is not a simple question. The data are in an html-formatted web >>page. You must "scrape" the html for the data and read it into an R >>table (or other appropriate R data structure). Searching (the web) on >>"scrape data from html into R" listed several packages that claim to >>enable you to do this "easily". Choose what seems best for you. >> >>You should also install and read the documentation for the XML >>package, which is also used for this purpose, though those you find >>above may be slicker. >> >>Disclaimer: I have no direct experience with this. I'm just pointing >>out what I believe are relevant resources. >> >>Cheers, >>Bert >>Bert Gunter >> >>"Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge >>is certainly not wisdom." >> -- Clifford Stoll >> >> >>On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Christofer Bogaso >><bogaso.christo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would like to download data from below page directly onto R. >>> >>> >>http://www.nseindia.com/live_market/dynaContent/live_watch/equities_stock_watch.htm >>> >>> Could you please assist me how can I do that programmatically. >>> >>> Thanks for your time. >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> 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. >> >>______________________________________________ >>R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>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. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
