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parseURI

Parse a URI string into its elements

Description

This breaks a URI given as a string into its different elements such as protocol/scheme, host, port, file name, query. This information can be used, for example, when constructing URIs relative to a base URI.

The return value is an S3-style object of class URI.

This function uses libxml routines to perform the parsing.

Usage

parseURI(uri)

Arguments

uri

a single string

Value

A list with 8 elements

`scheme`	the name of the protocol being used, http, ftp as a string.
`authority`	a string represeting a rarely used aspect of URIs
`server`	a string identifying the host, e.g. www.omegahat.net
`user`	a string giving the name of the user, e.g. in FTP "ftp://duncan@www.omegahat.net", this would yield "duncan"
`path`	a string identifying the path of the target file
`query`	the CGI query part of the string, e.g. the bit after '?' of the form `name=value&name=value`
`fragment`	a string giving the coo
`port`	an integer identifying the port number on which the connection is to be made

Examples

## Not run:  ## site is flaky
  parseURI("http://www.omegahat.net:8080/RCurl/index.html")
  parseURI("ftp://duncan@www.omegahat.net:8080/RCurl/index.html")

  parseURI("ftp://duncan@www.omegahat.net:8080/RCurl/index.html#my_anchor")

  as(parseURI("http://duncan@www.omegahat.net:8080/RCurl/index.html#my_anchor"), "character")

  as(parseURI("ftp://duncan@www.omegahat.net:8080/RCurl/index.html?foo=1&bar=axd"), "character")

## End(Not run)

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Tools for Parsing and Generating XML Within R and S-Plus

v3.99-0.10

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Authors

CRAN Team [ctb, cre] (de facto maintainer since 2013), Duncan Temple Lang [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0159-1546>), Tomas Kalibera [ctb]

Initial release