R: Navigate to a new url.

jump_to {rvest} | R Documentation

## Navigate to a new url.

### Description

`jump_to()` takes a url (either relative or absolute); `follow_link` takes an expression that refers to a link (an `<a>` tag) on the current page.

### Usage

    jump_to(x, url, ...)

    follow_link(x, i, css, xpath, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | A session.
`url` | A URL, either relative or absolute, to navigate to.
`...` | Any additional httr configs to apply to this request.
`i` | You can select with: an integer selects the ith link a string first link containing that text (case sensitive)
`css` | Nodes to select. Supply one of `css` or `xpath` depending on whether you want to use a css or xpath 1.0 selector.
`xpath` | Nodes to select. Supply one of `css` or `xpath` depending on whether you want to use a css or xpath 1.0 selector.

### Examples

    s <- html_session("http://hadley.nz")
    s <- s %>% follow_link("github")
    s <- s %>% back()
    s %>% follow_link("readr")

[Package rvest version 0.3.2 Index]