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read.lynx: Lynx Browser interface

Description

Uses the Lynx Browser to read a web page.

Usage

read.lynx(url, intern = TRUE, bin = NULL, pipe = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

url
a character string specifying the URL of the web page.
intern
a logical which indicates whether to make the output of the command an R object.
bin
a string with the path of your lynx binary or NULL if lynx binary is available in the operating system path.
pipe
a logical which indicates whether the result should be returned as a pipe() commmand.
...
optional arguments passed to lynx binary. For example accept_all_cookies = TRUE or cookie_file="~/.lynx_cookies". For a list of options, see the lynx manual page.

Value

  • the downloaded text.