[R] R and REST API's

[hadley wickham]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Gary Lewis <gary.m.lewis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi - Many organizations now make their data available as XML via a
> REST web service architecture. Is there any R package or facility to
> access this type of data directly (eg, to make the HTTP GET request
> and have the downloaded data put into an R data  frame)?
>
> I used several R search sites to look for an answer, but came up with
> very little. Any help would be appreciated.

See also http://github.com/hadley/crantastic/blob/cran-indexing/curr.R
for the beginnings of some REST code for R.

Hadley

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