The curl() and curl_download() functions provide highly configurable drop-in replacements for base url() and download.file() with better performance, support for encryption (https, ftps), gzip compression, authentication, and other 'libcurl' goodies. The core of the package implements a framework for performing fully customized requests where data can be processed either in memory, on disk, or streaming via the callback or connection interfaces. Some knowledge of 'libcurl' is recommended; for a more-user-friendly web client see the 'httr' package which builds on this package with http specific tools and logic.
| Version: | 4.3 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Suggests: | spelling, testthat (≥ 1.0.0), knitr, jsonlite, rmarkdown, magrittr, httpuv (≥ 1.4.4), webutils |
| Published: | 2019-12-02 |
| Author: | Jeroen Ooms |
| Maintainer: | Jeroen Ooms <jeroen at berkeley.edu> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/jeroen/curl/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://jeroen.cran.dev/curl (docs) https://github.com/jeroen/curl#readme (devel) https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/ (upstream) |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| SystemRequirements: | libcurl: libcurl-devel (rpm) or libcurl4-openssl-dev (deb). |
| Language: | en-US |
| Materials: | NEWS |
| In views: | WebTechnologies |
| CRAN checks: | curl results |
| Reference manual: | curl.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
The curl package: a modern R interface to libcurl Proxies and Certificates on Windows Networks |
| Package source: | curl_4.3.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: curl_4.3.zip, r-release: curl_4.3.zip, r-oldrel: curl_4.3.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release: curl_4.3.tgz, r-oldrel: curl_4.3.tgz |
| Old sources: | curl archive |
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