request - a high level HTTP client for R

request is DSL for http requests for R, and is inspired by the CLI tool httpie. It’s built on httr. The following were driving principles for this package: The web is increasingly a JSON world, so we assume applications/json by default, but give back other types if not The workflow follows logically, or at least should, from, hey, I got this url, to i need to add some options, to execute request - and functions support piping so that you can execute functions in this order Whenever possible, we transform output to data....

January 5, 2016 · 5 min · Scott Chamberlain