RCurl

General network (HTTP/FTP/...) client interface for R

The package allows one to compose general HTTP requests and provides convenient functions to fetch URIs, get & post forms, etc. and process the results returned by the Web server. This provides a great deal of control over the HTTP/FTP/... connection and the form of the request while providing a higher-level interface than is available just using R socket connections. Additionally, the underlying implementation is robust and extensive, supporting FTP/FTPS/TFTP (uploads and downloads), SSL/HTTPS, telnet, dict, ldap, and also supports cookies, redirects, authentication, etc.

Author Duncan Temple Lang
Maintainer Duncan Temple Lang

To install this package, start R and enter:

    source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
    biocLite("RCurl")

Documentation

No vignettes available
Reference Manual

Details

biocViews
Depends
R , methods , bitops
Imports
methods
Suggests
Rcompression , XML
System Requirements libcurl (version 7.14.0 or higher) http://curl.haxx.se. On Linux systems, you will often have to explicitly install libcurl-devel to have the header files and the libcurl library.
License BSD
URL http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl
Depends On Me
Imports Me
SSOAP , XMLRPC , XMLSchema
Suggests Me
XMLSchema

Package Downloads

Package source RCurl_1.95-0.1.2.tar.gz
Windows 32-bit binary RCurl_1.95-0.1.2.zip
Windows 64-bit binary RCurl_1.95-0.1.2.zip
MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) binary RCurl_1.95-0.1.2.tgz