POST request using RCurl

Question

As a way of exploring how to make a package in R for the Denver RUG, I decided that it would be a fun little project to write an R wrapper around the datasciencetoolkit API.

Answer 1

With httr, this is just:

library(httr)
r <- POST("http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/text2people", 
  body = "Tim O'Reilly, Archbishop Huxley")
stop_for_status(r)
content(r, "parsed", "application/json")