[R] Http Get-Post

[Prof Brian Ripley]

They are just text that you write to a socket, so try

help.search("socket")

On Sat, 10 May 2003, Eryk Wolski wrote:

> How can i send http Post and Get messages to a Web server from within R?
> Is there something like?
> form(action="http://big.thing.inf/cgi-bin/answer.pl",list(test="my",something="there"),method="POST")
> Or is is there an example how to write it with R?
> What functions to use to write such a function?

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