Package: RCurl
Version: 0.9-2
Title: HTTP request interface
Author: Duncan Temple Lang
SystemRequirements: curl (version 7.12.0 or higher) http://curl.haxx.se
Maintainer: Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu>
Description: The package allows one to compose HTTP requests to fetch URIs, post forms,
etc. and process the results returned by the Web server.
This provides a great deal of control over the HTTP 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 SSL/HTTPS, cookies, redirects, authentication, etc.
License: BSD
LazyLoad: true
Depends: methods
URL: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl
Limitations:
One doesn't yet have full control over the contents of a POST form such as specifying
files, content type.
Error handling uses a single global variable at present.
Note:  This will be used generally to communicate with HTTP servers and specifically
in the SOAP package, HTML forms and for accessing data on Web sites that require
more state information than simply URL access (e.g. cookies).
Check:  To run R CMD check, one really needs network access. It is an HTTP client!
This can be problematic as a Web site may be down when you run
but the real tests are important.
Packaged: Thu May  8 02:28:19 2008; duncan

Package: RCurl
Version: 0.9-3
Title: HTTP request interface
Author: Duncan Temple Lang
SystemRequirements: curl (version 7.12.0 or higher) http://curl.haxx.se
Maintainer: Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu>
Description: The package allows one to compose HTTP requests to fetch URIs, post forms,
etc. and process the results returned by the Web server.
This provides a great deal of control over the HTTP 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 SSL/HTTPS, cookies, redirects, authentication, etc.
License: BSD
LazyLoad: true
Depends: methods
URL: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl
Limitations:
One doesn't yet have full control over the contents of a POST form such as specifying
files, content type.
Error handling uses a single global variable at present.
Note:  This will be used generally to communicate with HTTP servers and specifically
in the SOAP package, HTML forms and for accessing data on Web sites that require
more state information than simply URL access (e.g. cookies).
Check:  To run R CMD check, one really needs network access. It is an HTTP client!
This can be problematic as a Web site may be down when you run
but the real tests are important.
Packaged: Sun May 11 15:50:27 2008; duncan