Upload a file with POST() or PUT().

Upload a file with POST() or PUT().

upload_file(path, type = NULL)

Arguments

path	path to file
type	mime type of path. If not supplied, will be guess by mime::guess_type() when needed.

Examples

citation <- upload_file(system.file("CITATION"))
POST("http://httpbin.org/post", body = citation)
#> Response [http://httpbin.org/post]
#>   Date: 2018-12-17 20:45
#>   Status: 200
#>   Content-Type: application/json
#>   Size: 1.51 kB
#> {
#>   "args": {}, 
#>   "data": "bibentry(\"Manual\",\n         title = \"R: A Language and Environ...
#>   "files": {}, 
#>   "form": {}, 
#>   "headers": {
#>     "Accept": "application/json, text/xml, application/xml, */*", 
#>     "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate", 
#>     "Connection": "close", 
#>     "Content-Length": "956", 
#> ...
POST("http://httpbin.org/post", body = list(y = citation))
#> Response [http://httpbin.org/post]
#>   Date: 2018-12-17 20:45
#>   Status: 200
#>   Content-Type: application/json
#>   Size: 1.59 kB
#> {
#>   "args": {}, 
#>   "data": "", 
#>   "files": {
#>     "y": "bibentry(\"Manual\",\n         title = \"R: A Language and Environm...
#>   }, 
#>   "form": {}, 
#>   "headers": {
#>     "Accept": "application/json, text/xml, application/xml, */*", 
#>     "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate", 
#> ...