How to fill in an online form and get results back in R

Question

Has anyone ever filled in a web form remotely from R?

I\'d like to do some archery statistics in R using my scores. There is a very handy webpage, that gives you the cla

Answer 1

this might not help you, as I am searching for an answer to a similar problem, but looking at the URL you would like to scrape, the forms to fill are actuall HTML Forms, and you can get the description by:

url <- "http://www.archersmate.co.uk/"
forms <- getHTMLFormDescription(url)

Also look at the package "RHTMLForms" on omegahat.org