RCurl: General Network (HTTP/FTP/...) Client Interface for R

A wrapper for 'libcurl' <https://curl.se/libcurl/> Provides functions to allow 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.

Getting started

Package details

AuthorCRAN Team [ctb, cre] (de facto maintainer since 2013), Duncan Temple Lang [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0159-1546>)
MaintainerCRAN Team <CRAN@r-project.org>
LicenseBSD_3_clause + file LICENSE
Version1.98-1.13
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("RCurl")

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RCurl documentation built on Nov. 3, 2023, 1:09 a.m.