Process output in a streaming manner.
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)
})
)Please choose more modern alternatives, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.