[R] How to call web service in R

Barry Rowlingson b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk
Tue Nov 23 12:28:15 CET 2010


On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:09 AM, 夏高 <xiagao1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually RCurl is not for calling web service. But thank you all the same.
> Does anybody know how to call web service in R? Thanks!

 Use RCurl. It can be used for calling web services. A web service is
just an HTTP endpoint that returns a response. RCurl does that.

 What did you have in mind as a 'web service'?

Barry



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