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We’re very pleased to announce the release of httr 0.3. httr makes it

easy to work with modern web apis so that you can work with web data

almost as easily as local data. For example, this code shows how might

find the most recently asked question about R on stackoverflow:

# install.packages("httr") library(httr) # Find the most recent R questions on stackoverflow r [1] "Remove NAs from data frame without deleting entire rows/columns"

httr 0.3 recieved a major overhaul to OAuth support. OAuth is a modern

standard for authentication used when you want to allow a service (i.e R

package) access to your account on a website. This version of httr

provides an improved initial authentication experience and supports

caching so that you only need to authenticate once per project. A big

thanks goes to Craig Citro (Google) who contributed a lot of code and

ideas to make this possible.

httr 0.3 also includes many other bug fixes and minor improvements. You

can read about these in the github release

notes.