How do I run a ldap query using R?

Question

I want to make a query against a LDAP directory of how employees are distributed in departments and groups...

Something like: \"Give me the department name of all th

Answer 1

Found the answer myself:

First run this commands to make sure RCurl is installed (as described in http://www.programmingr.com/content/webscraping-using-readlines-and-rcurl/ ):

install.packages("RCurl", dependencies = TRUE)
library("RCurl")

And then user getURL with an ldap URL (as described in http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2255.txt although I couldn't understand it until I read http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19396-01/817-7616/ldurl.html and saw ldap[s]://hostname:port/base_dn?attributes?scope?filter):

getURL("ldap://ldap.replaceme.com/o=replaceme.com?memberuid?sub?(cn=group-name)")