fImport (version 3000.82)

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.

References

Diethelm Wuertz, Yohan Chalabi, and Andrew Ellis, (2010); Financial Market Data for R/Rmetrics, Rmetrics eBook, Rmetrics Association and Finance Online, Zurich, www.rmetrics.org.