Re: [R] RCurl and postForm()

2011-04-29 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
Hi Ryan postForm() is using a different style (or specifically Content-Type) of submitting the form than the curl -d command. Switching the style = 'POST' uses the same type, but at a quick guess, the parameter name 'a' is causing confusion and the result is the empty JSON array - "[]". A qui

[R] RCurl and postForm()

2011-04-29 Thread Elmore, Ryan
Hi everybody, I think that I am missing something fundamental in how strings are passed from a postForm() call in R to the curl or libcurl functions underneath. For example, I can do the following using curl from the command line: $ curl -d "Archbishop Huxley" "http://www.datasciencetoolkit.or