httpuv provides low-level socket and protocol support for handling HTTP and WebSocket requests directly from within R. It is primarily intended as a building block for other packages, rather than making it particularly easy to create complete web applications using httpuv alone. httpuv is built on top of the libuv and http-parser C libraries, both of which were developed by Joyent, Inc.

The Rcpp package is required.

Windows users also need to make sure the correct version of RTools is installed and in the system path.

git clone https://github.com/rstudio/httpuv
cd httpuv
git submodule update --init
R CMD INSTALL .

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