fImport (version 3000.82)

read-w3m: w3m Browser interface

Description

Uses the w3m Browser to read a web page.

Usage

read.w3m(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 w3m binary or NULL if w3m 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 w3m binary. For a list of options, see the w3m 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.