https://github.com/Ironholds/urltools

Elegant URL handling in R
https://github.com/Ironholds/urltools

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Elegant URL handling in R

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/Ironholds/urltools
• Owner: Ironholds
• License: other
• Created: 2014-12-07T20:33:16.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-09-06T14:29:19.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-13T04:05:38.670Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: access-logs, data-import, r, url
• Language: C++
• Homepage:
• Size: 1000 KB
• Stars: 131
• Watchers: 12
• Forks: 32
• Open Issues: 20
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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README

        
## urltools

A package for elegantly handling and parsing URLs from within R.

__Author:__ Oliver Keyes, Jay Jacobs


__License:__ [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)


__Status:__ Stable

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### Description

URLs in R are often treated as nothing more than part of data retrieval -

they're used for making connections and reading data. With web analytics

and research, however, URLs can *be* the data, and R's default handlers

are not best suited to handle vectorised operations over large datasets.

urltools is intended to solve this. 

It contains drop-in replacements for R's URLdecode and URLencode functions, along

with new functionality such as a URL parser and parameter value extractor. In all

cases, the functions are designed to be content-safe (not breaking on unexpected values)

and fully vectorised, resulting in a dramatic speed improvement over existing implementations -

crucial for large datasets. For more information, see the [urltools vignette](https://github.com/Ironholds/urltools/blob/master/vignettes/urltools.Rmd).

Please note that this project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).

By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

### Installation

The latest CRAN version can be obtained via:

    install.packages("urltools")

    

To get the development version:

    devtools::install_github("ironholds/urltools")

### Dependencies

* R. Doy.

* [Rcpp](https://cran.r-project.org/package=Rcpp)