[R] accessing a SOAP based web service from R

[Seth Falcon]

Rajarshi Guha <rxg218 at psu.edu> writes:

> Hi,
>   I have a number of web services that run on a server and can be
> accessed via SOAP as well as by creating a specific URL.
>
> Now, for certain services, the argument that I need to send is about 10
> to 20 characters and the URL approach works fine. However if the
> argument is a few kilobytes I would rather create a SOAP packet and send
> that off.
>
> So my first question is: is there a package that can create SOAP packets
> and communicate with a web service via SOAP?

SSOAP

http://www.omegahat.org/SSOAP/