On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Gary Lewis <gary.m.lewis@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)?
>

The url() function together with the XML package should let you do this

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Rajarshi Guha
NIH Chemical Genomics Center

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