library(RJSONIO)
library(RCurl)
httpPUT("http://127.0.0.1:5984/fooddb")  # Creates the fooddb database
# Add two documents
fromJSON(getURL("http://127.0.0.1:5984/fooddb", customrequest='POST', httpheader=c('Content-Type'='application/json'), postfields=toJSON(list(day="Monday", dinner="Pasta"))))
fromJSON(getURL("http://127.0.0.1:5984/fooddb", customrequest='POST', httpheader=c('Content-Type'='application/json'), postfields=toJSON(list(day="Tuesday", dinner="Soup"))))

function(doc) {
  emit(doc.day, doc.dinner);
}

view.results <- fromJSON(httpGET("http://127.0.0.1:5984/fooddb/_design/fooddoc/_view/foodview"))
view.results.df <- do.call(rbind.data.frame, view.results$rows)
colnames(view.results.df) <- c("key", "day", "dinner")

writeLines(toJSON("function(doc) {
           emit(doc.day, doc.dinner);
           }"),
           "foodview.json")
fromJSON(getURL("http://127.0.0.1:5984/fooddb/_design/foodview", customrequest='PUT', httpheader=c('Content-Type'='application/json'), postfields="@foodview.json"))

writeLines("{
   "_id": "_design/foodview",
   "views": {
     "foodview": {
       "map": "function(doc) {emit(doc.day, doc.dinner);}"
     }
   }
  }"
, "foodview.json")

fromJSON(getURL("http://127.0.0.1:5984/fooddb/_design/foodview", customrequest='PUT', httpheader=c('Content-Type'='application/json'), postfields="@foodview.json"))

{
   "_id": "_design/foodview",
   "views": {
     "foodview": {
       "map": "function(doc) {emit(doc.day, doc.dinner);}"
     }
   }
}