Package: RCurl
Version: 0.92-0
Title: HTTP request interface
Author: Duncan Temple Lang
SystemRequirements: curl (version 7.12.0 or higher) http://curl.haxx.se
Maintainer: Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu>
Description: The package allows one to compose HTTP requests to fetch
        URIs, post forms, etc. and process the results returned by the
        Web server. This provides a great deal of control over the HTTP
        connection and the form of the request while providing a
        higher-level interface than is available just using R socket
        connections.  Additionally, the underlying implementation is
        robust and extensive, supporting SSL/HTTPS, cookies, redirects,
        authentication, etc.
License: BSD
LazyLoad: true
Depends: R (>= 2.7.0), methods
Suggests: Rcompression
URL: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl
Limitations: One doesn't yet have full control over the contents of a
        POST form such as specifying files, content type. Error
        handling uses a single global variable at present.
Note: This will be used generally to communicate with HTTP servers and
        specifically in the SOAP package, HTML forms and for accessing
        data on Web sites that require more state information than
        simply URL access (e.g. cookies).
Check: To run R CMD check, one really needs network access. It is an
        HTTP client! This can be problematic as a Web site may be down
        when you run but the real tests are important.
Packaged: Tue Nov 18 10:43:15 2008; biocbuild
Built: R 2.8.0; i386-pc-mingw32; 2008-11-18 10:43:35; windows
