Re: [R] Extracting text from html code using the RCurl package.

Thank you for your response both Martin and Gabor, very much appreciated! In case anyone does a search for this topic, i thought i'd write a few comments below on what I have ended up doing: re: Internet Explorer (IE) - Finding out that R can access IE was a very pleasant surprise! This works ver

Re: [R] Extracting text from html code using the RCurl package.

I gather you are using Windows and in that case you could use RDCOMClient or rcom to get it via Internet Explorer, e.g. library(RDCOMClient) ie <- COMCreate("InternetExplorer.Application") URL <- "https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help"; ie$Navigate(URL) while(ie[["Busy"]]) Sys.sleep(1) txt

Re: [R] Extracting text from html code using the RCurl package.

Hi Tony -- Tony Breyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear R-help, > > I want to download the text from a web page, however what i end up > with is the html code. Is there some option that i am missing in the > RCurl package? Or is there another way to achieve this? This is the > code i am using:

[R] Extracting text from html code using the RCurl package.

Dear R-help, I want to download the text from a web page, however what i end up with is the html code. Is there some option that i am missing in the RCurl package? Or is there another way to achieve this? This is the code i am using: > library(RCurl) > my.url <- 'https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/list