Getting data into R from web APIs using the httr R package

We need to implement the following steps to extract data using the httr package in R workspace:

First, we load the httr package:

library(httr)

We then call GET function and pass it as a URL:

r <- GET("http://httpbin.org/get")

This gives us a response object that can be processed further for data. To start with, we can print out the response object to get some information about the data:

>r
Response [http://httpbin.org/get]
  Date: 2019-01-18 03:45
  Status: 200
  Content-Type: application/json
  Size: 326 B
{
  "args": {}, 
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "application/json, text/xml, application/xml, */*", 
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate", 
    "Connection": "close", 
    "Host": "httpbin.org", 
    "User-Agent...