Source: r-cran-curl Standards-Version: 4.7.3 Maintainer: Debian R Packages Maintainers Uploaders: Andreas Tille , Section: gnu-r Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-r Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-r, r-base-dev, libcurl4-openssl-dev, architecture-is-64-bit, architecture-is-little-endian, Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-curl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-curl.git Homepage: https://cran.r-project.org/package=curl Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: r-cran-curl Architecture: any Depends: ${R:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, Recommends: ${R:Recommends}, Suggests: ${R:Suggests}, Description: GNU R modern and flexible web client for R The curl() and curl_download() functions provide highly configurable drop- in replacements for base url() and download.file() with better performance, support for encryption (https, ftps), gzip compression, authentication, and other libcurl goodies. The core of the package implements a framework for performing fully customized requests where data can be processed either in memory, on disk, or streaming via the callback or connection interfaces. Some knowledge of libcurl is recommended; for a more-user-friendly web client see the 'httr' package which builds on this package with http specific tools and logic.