chunkToLineReader function

Utility that collects data from the HTTP reply into lines and calls user-provided function.

When one provides an R function to process the body of the R rep

chunkToLineReader(f, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

• f: a function that is to be called each time the read function is invoked and there are complete lines in that input.
• verbose: a logical value. If TRUE, information is displayed when there is any text that does not form a complete line and is held for processing in the next chunk.

Details

This constructs a closure and then processes each chunk as they are passed to the read function. It strips away any text that does not form a complete line at the end of the chunk and holds this to be added to the next chunk being processed.

Returns

A list with two components - read: the function that will do the actual reading from the HTTP response stream and call the function f on each step (assuming the chunk has a line marker.

• comp2: Description of 'comp2'

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References

Curl homepage https://curl.se/

Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

See Also

getURI and the write argument. getForm, postForm

curlPerform

Examples

# Read a rectangular table of data into R from the URL
# and add up the values and the number of values read.

summer =
function()
{
  total = 0.0
  numValues = 0

  list(read = function(txt) {
                 con = textConnection(txt)
                 on.exit(close(con))
                 els = scan(con)
                 numValues <<- numValues + length(els)
                 total <<- total + sum(els)

                 ""
              },
       result = function() c(total = total, numValues = numValues))
}

s = summer()

## Not run:

## broken, 2022-07-29
if(url.exists("https://www.omegahat.net/RCurl/matrix.data"))
   getURL("https://www.omegahat.net/RCurl/matrix.data", write = chunkToLineReader(s$read)$read)
## End(Not run)