Gary,
Echoing Barry's suggestion of Omegahat packages, take a look at RCurl -
http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/
It has a function, getForm, which passes GET form parameters as a list
to curl. I used it and the XML package in writing
RLastFM (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RLastFM/index.html)
which implements this for last.fm. With a few XPath queries (in the XML)
package, you can format the data into a data frame.
Greg
Gary Lewis 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)?
I used several R search sites to look for an answer, but came up with
very little. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks very much.
Gary Lewis
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