| parseURI {XML} | R Documentation |
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.
parseURI(uri)
uri |
a single string |
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 |
fragment |
a string giving the coo |
port |
an integer identifying the port number on which the connection is to be made |
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")