[R] writing binary data from RCurl and postForm

[Hadley Wickham]

> I think that is because the value returned from postForm has an attribute;
> remove it by casting the return to a vector
>
>   fl <- tempfile(fileext=".pdf")
>   writeBin(as.vector(postForm(url, binary=TRUE)), fl)
>
>
> The httr package might also be a good bet
>
>   writeBin(content(POST(url)), fl)

Or write response directly to disk with

POST(url, write_disk(fl))

Hadley

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