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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

See Also

getRelativeURL

Examples

Run this code
  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")

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