intermine API with R

intermineAPI

# intermine gives you code for downloading search results in many languages including Perl,Python,Java,and even Javascript
# by default, no R code is given, but it does provide a XML query string which can be easily be downloaded with RCurl or httr

library(httr)
library(jsonlite)

query='<query model="genomic" view="Gene.chromosome.primaryIdentifier Gene.exons.chromosomeLocation.start Gene.exons.chromosomeLocation.end" ><constraint path="Gene.symbol" op="=" value="eve" /><constraint path="Gene.organism" op="LOOKUP" value="D. melanogaster" /></query>'

ret=POST('http://www.flymine.org/flymine/service/query/results',
         body=list(query=query, format='json'),
         encode='form')
         
         
response=fromJSON(content(ret,as='text'))
if(response$wasSuccessful) {
  print(response$results)
}

# Output is a data frame
#     [,1] [,2]      [,3]     
#[1,] "2R" "5866824" "5867058"
#[2,] "2R" "5867130" "5868300"

See InterMineR also https://github.com/intermine/intermineR