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[S] Summary :Reading an ASCII file from a web site
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Spyros Vrontos)
Wed Aug 11 08:57:35 1999
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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:43:12 +0300
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From: Spyros Vrontos <svrontos@stat-athens.stats.aueb.gr>
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Bill Dunlap suggested the following solution, using perl 5.
>> urlGet <- function(url)
>> >{
>> > unix(paste("/sw/local/perl5/bin/GET", url))
>> >}
>> >
Barry Rowlingson suggested the following solution that uses slynx that is
supplied
with Splus5:
>
> urlget <- function(url)
>{
> unix(paste("$SHOME/cmd/slynx -dump -cfg $SHOME/cmd/lynx.cfg", url))
>}
>
> Note that this doesn't get the HTML like Bill's GET solution, but
>returns a plain text formatted version of the page. It also has the
advantage of
>not needing perl, but you should get perl anyway!
Many thanks to both of them
Spyros.
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