How to use Tor socks5 in R getURL

Question

I want to use Tor in getURL function in R. Tor is working (checked in firefox), socks5 at port 9050. But when I set this in R, I get the f

Answer 1

There are curl bindings for R, after which you can use curl to call the Tor SOCKS5 proxy server.

The call from the shell (which you can translate to the R binding) is:

curl --socks5-hostname 127.0.0.1:9050 google.com

Tor will do the DNS also for A records.