> library('RCurl')
> url.exists('http://www.google.com')
[1] TRUE
> url.exists('http://www.yahoo.com')
[1] TRUE
> url.exists('http://www.bing.com')
[1] TRUE
> url.exists('http://www.baidu.com')
[1] TRUE
> url.exists('http://www.qq.com')
[1] TRUE
> Sys.info()
sysname release
"Linux" "3.13.0-55-generic"
version nodename
"#94-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 18 00:27:10 UTC 2015" "ip-172-31-8-224"
machine login
"x86_64" "unknown"
user effective_user
"rstudio" "rstudio"