> As I should know better than to force any convinced Python > hacker to look at > Perl code, I include an example shell script below. I am not a total loss, I can read and write a bit of perl; have to to keep up the likes of you and the mighty Moe! ;-) > Given that R can > retrieve directly from read.csv() via url() as its file argument, this > should adapt easily. Could you report your snippets back? > Maybe this could > be something to contribute back as a little helper function? Absolutely. In fact I will report back an intergrated BB charting function for R based on the work we did in the Spring on Crusher. > So below is the > old-ish script 'examine_server.sh' which has some > documentation on which cgi > query symbol stands for which datum. <snip> That helped a lot. Results in a few days. --jab