[R] How to download this data

Jeff Newmiller jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us
Tue Aug 25 21:55:40 CEST 2015


... but not programmatically.
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On August 25, 2015 12:11:15 PM PDT, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:
>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
><jdnewmil at 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.
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>> On August 25, 2015 11:23:26 AM PDT, Bert Gunter
><bgunter.4567 at 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.christofer at 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.
>>>>
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