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urltools (version 1.1.0)

query: Get or set a URL's query string

Description

as in the lubridate package, individual components of a URL can be both extracted or set using the relevant function call - see the examples.

Usage

query(x)

query(x) <- value

Arguments

x
a URL, or vector of URLs
value
a replacement value for x's scheme.

Examples

Run this code
#Get a component
example_url <- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Halfaker?debug=true"
query(example_url)

#Set a component
query(example_url) <- "debug=false"

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