Package 'RcppAsioExample'

A Simple Example of Using 'Asio' from 'R' via 'Rcpp'

Description

The 'AsioHeader' packages brings the 'Asio' library in a header-only format to R. This package illustrates its use via a simple example, and be used as a test whether all relevant packages are correctly setup to allow compilation.

Maintainer

Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]>

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6419-907X>)

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Example Asio application

Description

This function implements a very simple http client. It follows the http_client.cpp example in the Asio documentation but has been adapted to be used as an example function here.

Usage

httpClient(host, path)

Arguments

host	A character variable with an internet host name
path	A character variable with an accessible path

Value

Nothing is returned as the function is invoked for its a side-effect of display what is retrieved.

Examples

## Not run: 
## now commented-out / inactive as the redirect upsets R's own checking
httpClient("www.apache.org", "/robots.txt")

## End(Not run)

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