R-bloggers
viaThe R-Podcast Episode 6: Importing Data from External Sources. …is an excellent summary of how to get external data into R.
I recently needed to get JSON-formatted data in R (as people argue that you should use JSON for most of the data transaction needs in the web area, even for e.g. log file content like in http://blog.treasure-data.com/post/21881575472/log-everything-as-json-make-your-life-easier ), where I found http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2617600/importing-data-from-a-json-file-into-r handy.
