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RCurl (version 1.95-4.2)

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

Description

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.

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Install

install.packages('RCurl')

Monthly Downloads

152,340

Version

1.95-4.2

License

BSD

Maintainer

Duncan Lang

Last Published

July 28th, 2014

Functions in RCurl (1.95-4.2)

fileUpload

Specify information about a file to upload in an HTTP request
merge.list

Method for merging two lists by name
url.exists

Check if URL exists
CURLEnums

Classes and coercion methods for enumerations in libcurl
basicHeaderGatherer

Functions for processing the response header of a libcurl request
mimeTypeExtensions

Mapping from extension to MIME type
curlSetOpt

Set values for the CURL options
complete

Complete an asynchronous HTTP request
getFormParams

Extract parameters from a form query string
reset

Generic function for resetting an object
HTTP_VERSION_1_0

Symbolic constants for specifying HTTP and SSL versions in libcurl
scp

Retrieve contents of a file from a remote host via SCP (Secure Copy)
curlVersion

Information describing the Curl library
CFILE

Create a C-level handle for a file
chunkToLineReader

Utility that collects data from the HTTP reply into lines and calls user-provided function.
curlEscape

Handle characters in URL that need to be escaped
getURIAsynchronous

Download multiple URIs concurrently, with inter-leaved downloads
AUTH_ANY

Constants for identifying Authentication Schemes
ftpUpload

Upload content via FTP
curlGlobalInit

Start and stop the Curl library
getBinaryURL

Download binary content
getCurlInfo

Access information about a CURL request
getURL

Download a URI
httpPUT

Simple high-level functions for HTTP PUT and DELETE
binaryBuffer

Create internal C-level data structure for collecting binary data
curlOptions

Constructor and accessors for CURLOptions objects
curlError

Raise a warning or error about a CURL problem
getCurlHandle

Create libcurl handles
RCurlInternal

Internal functions
getCurlErrorClassNames

Retrieve names of all curl error classes
clone

Clone/duplicate an object
CurlFeatureBits

Constants for libcurl
curlPerform

Perform the HTTP query
guessMIMEType

Infer the MIME type from a file name
base64

Encode/Decode base64 content
dynCurlReader

Dynamically determine content-type of body from HTTP header and set body reader
getBitIndicators

Operate on bit fields
MultiCURLHandle-class

Class "MultiCURLHandle" for asynchronous, concurrent HTTP requests
basicTextGatherer

Cumulate text across callbacks (from an HTTP response)
CURLHandle-class

Class "CURLHandle" for synchronous HTTP requests
findHTTPHeaderEncoding

Find the encoding of the HTTP response from the HTTP header
postForm

Submit an HTML form