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.
Version: | 3.1 |
Depends: | R (≥ 3.0.0) |
Suggests: | testthat (≥ 1.0.0), knitr, jsonlite, rmarkdown, magrittr, httpuv, webutils |
Published: | 2017-12-12 |
Author: | Jeroen Ooms [cre, aut], Hadley Wickham [ctb], RStudio [cph] |
Maintainer: | Jeroen Ooms <jeroen at berkeley.edu> |
BugReports: | https://github.com/jeroen/curl/issues |
License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
URL: | https://github.com/jeroen/curl#readme (devel) https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/ (upstream) |
NeedsCompilation: | yes |
SystemRequirements: | libcurl: libcurl-devel (rpm) or libcurl4-openssl-dev (deb). |
Materials: | NEWS |
In views: | WebTechnologies |
CRAN checks: | curl results |
Reference manual: | curl.pdf |
Vignettes: |
The curl package: a modern R interface to libcurl |
Package source: | curl_3.1.tar.gz |
Windows binaries: | r-devel: curl_3.1.zip, r-release: curl_3.1.zip, r-oldrel: curl_3.1.zip |
OS X El Capitan binaries: | r-release: curl_3.1.tgz |
OS X Mavericks binaries: | r-oldrel: curl_3.1.tgz |
Old sources: | curl archive |
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