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curl_escape

URL encoding

Description

Escape all special characters (i.e. everything except for a-z, A-Z, 0-9, '-', '.', '_' or '~') for use in URLs.

Usage

curl_escape(url)

curl_unescape(url)

Arguments

url

A character vector (typically containing urls or parameters) to be encoded/decoded

Examples

# Escape strings
out <- curl_escape("foo = bar + 5")
curl_unescape(out)

# All non-ascii characters are encoded
mu <- "\u00b5"
curl_escape(mu)
curl_unescape(curl_escape(mu))

curl

A Modern and Flexible Web Client for R

v4.3.1

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Jeroen Ooms [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4035-0289>), Hadley Wickham [ctb], RStudio [cph]

Initial release