Re: [R] RCurl cookiejar

2013-08-27 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
Hi Earl The cookies will only be written to the file specified by the cookiejar option when the curl handle is garbage collected. If you use rm(ch) gc() the cookie.txt file should be created. This is the way libcurl behaves rather than something RCurl introduces. If you don't explic

Re: [R] RCurl cookiejar

2013-08-25 Thread Hadley Wickham
Hi Earl, Have you read the libCurl documentation for CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR? : Pass a file name as char *, zero terminated. This will make libcurl write all internally known cookies to the specified file when curl_easy_cleanup(3)is called. If no cookies are known, no file will be created. Specify "-"

[R] RCurl cookiejar

2013-08-25 Thread Earl Brown
R-helpers, When I use cURL in the Terminal: curl --cookie-jar cookie.txt --url "http://corpusdelespanol.org/x.asp"; --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0" --location --include a cookie file "cookie.txt" is saved to my working directory.