R: Parse a URI string into its elements

parseURI {XML} | R Documentation

## 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

      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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