Using R to connect to a sharepoint list

Question

Has anyone been able to import a SharePoint list in R as a dataframe?

I have two separate data sources, one from a SharePoint list and the other from a DB that I wis

Answer 1

Lee Mendoza's answer may well work if ListData.svc is running and/or you have administrative access to the SharePoint server.

If both of those aren't true: the following might work. At least it does for me on SharePoint 2010. If there's a better way of doing it when ListData.svc isn't present, I'd love to hear it.

 library(RCurl)
 library(XML)
 library(data.table)
 URL <- "http:///_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?Cmd=Display&Query=*&XMLDATA=TRUE&List={GUID_OF_LIST}"
 rawData <- getURL(URL, userpwd = "username:password")
 # in real life  prompt for user credentials, don't put in script
 xmlData <- xmlParse (rawData, options=HUGE, useInternalNodes=TRUE)
 dataList <- xmlToList(xmlRoot(xmlData)[["data"]])
 # check the system return, on my SP2010 server the data block is 
 # named rs:data so this works
 dataMatrix <- do.call(rbind,dataList)
 finalDataTable <- data.table(dataMatrix)