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Parse Claritin json string
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| library(jsonlite) | |
| url <- "http://www.claritin.com/webservice/allergyforecast.php?zip=33956" | |
| df <- fromJSON(url) |
In case anyone else comes late to this thread. Jeroen Ooms explains that this is a UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM). The development version of jsonlite on github removes this mark automatically, supplies a warning, and then continues to parse the json. Will be version 0.9.17 once it's on CRAN.
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those extraneous 4 bytes show up alot in httr-json & xml responses. i need to poke at the httr/curl code more to see if i can narrow that down.