OAuth access for R

Question

I'm trying to use R to grab some web data that requires OAuth authentication. Searching on CRAN and RSeek.org for info on OAuth + R provides nothing. Any tips for accessing RESTful APIs with R using OAuth?

I'm considering using some Python/Perl/Ruby to grab the data, save it to a text file, then work on it with R. I'd prefer to stay totally in R, but it seems like OAuth is a barrier.

Answer 1

Turns out Jeff Gentry from TwitteR wrote his own OAuth R library.

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ROAuth/index.html

Answer 2

Best approach now appears to be to use httr (https://github.com/r-lib/httr)

Answer 3

One option I stumbled on is called OAuth Proxy and it slips the OAuth headers in using a proxy. This is an interesting kludge.