curlEscape {RCurl} | R Documentation |
These functions convert between URLs that are
human-readable and those that have special characters
escaped. For example, to send a URL with a space,
we need to represent the space as %20
.
curlEscape(urls) curlUnescape(urls)
urls |
a character vector giving the strings to be escaped or unescaped. |
This calls curl_escape
or curl_unescape
in the libcurl library.
A character vector that has corresponding elements to the input with the characters escaped or not.
Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu>
Curl homepage http://curl.haxx.se
curlEscape("http://www.abc.com?x=a is a sentence&a b=and another") # Reverse it should get back original curlUnescape(curlEscape("http://www.abc.com?x=a is a sentence&a b=and another"))