+#' Subscribe Apache Kafka consumer to a topic using Confluent's REST Proxy API
+#'
+#' \code{SubscribeKafkaTopic} subscribes an Apache Kafka consumer to a topic
+#' using the rest proxy api provided by Confluent.
+#'
+#' @param consumer.base.uri The URI of the consumer created by \code{\link{CreateKafkaConsumer}}.
+#' @param topic A chr object with the topic to subscribe to.
+#'
+#' @return If the operation succeeds, returns the response, which can be discarded.
+#' If the operation fails, it might help out understanding what happened.
+#'
SubscribeKafkaTopic <- function(consumer.base.uri, topic) {
response <- POST(url=paste(consumer.base.uri,
"subscription", sep="/"),