A Modern and Flexible Web Client for R
Description
The curl() and curl_download() functions provide highly configurable
drop-in replacements for base url() and download.file() with better performance,
support for encryption (https://, ftps://), 'gzip' compression, authentication,
and other 'libcurl' goodies. The core of the package implements a framework for
performing fully customized requests where data can be processed either in memory,
on disk, or streaming via the callback or connection interfaces. Some knowledge of
'libcurl' is recommended; for a more-user-friendly web client see the 'httr' package
which builds on this package with HTTP specific tools and logic.