Package: RCurl
Version: 1.9-0
Title: General network (HTTP/FTP/...) client interface for R
Author: Duncan Temple Lang
SystemRequirements: libcurl (version 7.14.0 or higher)
       http://curl.haxx.se. On Linux systems, you will often
       have to explicitly install libcurl-devel to have the
       header files and the libcurl library.
Maintainer: Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu>
Description: The package allows one to compose general HTTP requests
     and provides convenient functions to fetch URIs, get & post forms,
     etc. and process the results returned by the Web server. 
     This provides a great deal of control over the HTTP/FTP/... 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 FTP/FTPS/TFTP (uploads and downloads), 
     SSL/HTTPS, telnet, dict, ldap, and also supports cookies, redirects, authentication, etc.
License: BSD
Depends: R (>= 2.7.0), methods, bitops
Suggests: Rcompression, XML
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: 2011-12-15 15:07:50 UTC; duncan
