write_stream {httr} | R Documentation |
This is the most general way of processing the response from the server - you receive the raw bytes as they come in, and you can do whatever you want with them.
write_stream(f)
f |
Callback function. It should have a single argument, a raw vector containing the bytes recieved from the server. This will usually be 16k or less. The return value of the function is ignored. |
GET("https://github.com/jeroen/data/raw/gh-pages/diamonds.json", write_stream(function(x) { print(length(x)) length(x) }) )