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")
| No vignettes available |
| Reference Manual |
| 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 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 | Not Available |