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New version of httr: 0.2

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Written by Hadley Wickham
2012-10-14

We’re happy to announce a new version of httr, a package designed to make it easy to work with web APIs. Httr is a wrapper around RCurl, and provides:

  • functions for the most important http verbs: GET, HEAD, PATCH, PUT, DELETE and POST.

  • automatic cookie handing across requests, connection sharing, and standard SSL config.

  • a request object which captures the body of the request along with request status, cookies, headers, timings and other useful information.

  • easy ways to access the response as a raw vector, a character vector, or parsed into an R object (for html, xml, json, png and jpeg).

  • wrapper functions for the most common configuration options: set_cookies, add_headers, authenticate, use_proxy, verbose, timeout.

  • support for OAuth 1.0 and 2.0. Use oauth1.0_token and oauth2.0_token to get user tokens, and sign_oauth1.0 and sign_oauth2.0to sign requests. The demos directory has six demos of using OAuth: three for 1.0 (linkedin, twitter and vimeo) and three for 2.0 (facebook, github, google).

Track httr’s development on github, and see what’s new in this version.

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Hadley Wickham

Chief Scientist, Posit
Hadley is Chief Scientist at Posit PBC, winner of the 2019 COPSS award, and a member of the R Foundation. He builds tools (both computational and cognitive) to make data science easier, faster, and more fun. His work includes packages for data science (like the tidyverse, which includes ggplot2, dplyr, and tidyr)and principled software development (e.g. roxygen2, testthat, and pkgdown). He is also a writer, educator, and speaker promoting the use of R for data science.

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