You can use RSelenium. I have used the dev version as you can run phantomjs without a Selenium Server.
# Install RSelenium if required. You will need phantomjs in your path or follow instructions
# in package vignettes
# devtools::install_github("ropensci/RSelenium")
# login first
appURL <- 'http://subscribers.footballguys.com/amember/login.php'
library(RSelenium)
pJS <- phantom() # start phantomjs
remDr <- remoteDriver(browserName = "phantomjs")
remDr$open()
remDr$navigate(appURL)
remDr$findElement("id", "login")$sendKeysToElement(list("myusername"))
remDr$findElement("id", "pass")$sendKeysToElement(list("mypass"))
remDr$findElement("css", ".am-login-form input[type="submit"]")$clickElement()
appURL <- 'http://subscribers.footballguys.com/myfbg/myviewprojections.php?projector=2'
remDr$navigate(appURL)
tableElem<- remDr$findElement("css", "table.datamedium")
res <- readHTMLTable(header = TRUE, tableElem$getElementAttribute("outerHTML")[[1]])
> res[[1]][1:5, ]
Rank Name Tm/Bye Age Exp Cmp Att Cm% PYd Y/Att PTD Int Rsh Yd TD FantPt
1 1 Peyton Manning DEN/4 38 17 415 620 66.9 4929 7.95 43 12 24 7 0 407.15
2 2 Drew Brees NO/6 35 14 404 615 65.7 4859 7.90 37 16 22 44 1 385.35
3 3 Aaron Rodgers GB/9 31 10 364 560 65.0 4446 7.94 33 13 52 224 3 381.70
4 4 Andrew Luck IND/10 25 3 366 610 60.0 4423 7.25 27 13 62 338 2 361.95
5 5 Matthew Stafford DET/9 26 6 377 643 58.6 4668 7.26 32 19 34 102 1 358.60
Finally when you are finished close phantomjs
pJS$stop()
If you want to use a traditional browser like firefox for example (if you wanted to stick to the version on CRAN) you would use:
RSelenium::startServer()
remDr <- remoteDriver()
........
........
remDr$closeServer()
in place of the related phantomjs calls.