On Sat, 06 Jan 2018, Christofer Bogaso writes: > Hi, > > I would appreciate if someone can give me a pointer on how to save a > webpage programmatically using R. > > For example, let say I have this webpage open in my browser: > > http://www.bseindia.com/stock-share-price/dabur-india-ltd/dabur/500096/ > > When manually I save this page, I just press Command+S (using Mac) and > then this page get saved in hard-disk > > Now I want R to mimic this same job that I do using Command-S > > So far I have tried with readLines() however the output content is > different than what I could achieve using Command+S > > Any help will be highly appreciated. > > Thanks for your time. >
The command-line utility 'wget' can download websites, including graphics, etc. Look for 'mirror' in its documentation if you want to download the complete site. It is usually available by default on Unix-style systems; I am sure there is a version for Mac. If you insist on using R, you could write a simple wrapper, using ?system or ?system2. -- Enrico Schumann Lucerne, Switzerland http://enricoschumann.net ______________________________________________ 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.
