I'm hitting a wall. When I use the 'scrape' function from the package
'scrapeR' to get the pagesource from a web page, I do the following:
(as an example)
website.doc = parse("http://www.google.com")
When I look at it, it seems fine:
website.doc[[1]]
This seems to have the information I need. Then when I try to get it
into a character vector,
character.website = as.character(website.doc[[1]])
I get the error:
Error in as.vector(x, "character") :
cannot coerce type 'externalptr' to vector of type 'character'
I'm trying very very hard to wrap my head around how to get this
external pointer to a character, but after reading many help files, I
cannot understand how to do this. Any ideas?