Package: curl
Type: Package
Title: A Modern and Flexible Web Client for R
Version: 7.1.0
Authors@R: c(
person("Jeroen", "Ooms", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "jeroenooms@gmail.com",
comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4035-0289")),
person("Hadley", "Wickham", role = "ctb"),
person("Posit Software, PBC", role = "cph"))
Description: Bindings to 'libcurl' for
performing fully configurable HTTP/FTP requests where responses
can be processed in memory, on disk, or streaming via the
callback or connection interfaces. Some knowledge of 'libcurl'
is recommended; for a more-user-friendly web client see the
'httr2' package which builds on this package with http specific
tools and logic.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
SystemRequirements: libcurl (>= 7.73): libcurl-devel (rpm) or
libcurl4-openssl-dev (deb)
URL: https://jeroen.r-universe.dev/curl
BugReports: https://github.com/jeroen/curl/issues
Suggests: spelling, testthat (>= 1.0.0), knitr, jsonlite, later,
rmarkdown, httpuv (>= 1.4.4), webutils
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Depends: R (>= 3.0.0)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-US
Roxygen: list(load = "installed", markdown = TRUE)
Config/pak/sysreqs: libssl-dev
Repository: https://jeroen.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-06-12 21:52:34 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/jeroen/curl
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: c53a7f565835d57d7d3ceca54dfad754185b1988
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-06-30 21:58:40 UTC; root
Author: Jeroen Ooms [aut, cre] (ORCID: ),
Hadley Wickham [ctb],
Posit Software, PBC [cph]
Maintainer: Jeroen Ooms