[R] Access web content from within R

[Marshall Feldman]

On 7/16/2010 6:00 AM, r-help-request at r-project.org wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I have to search in an online db for registered manufacturers of raw
> materials.
> Can I use R for the following:
> I have a list with monograph numbers eg: l<- c(198, 731,355)
>
> Now I want to make a dataframe, containing the monograph number and the
> information listed under COS:
> Certificate holder, certificate number, Status, Type
>
> Is this possible with R?
>
> kind regards
>
>
> Bart
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You don't describe the format of the database. If it's HTML or XML, the 
scrapeR package may do the trick.

     Marsh Feldman