URL encoding

Escape all special characters (i.e. everything except for a-z, A-Z, 0-9, '-', '.', '_' or '~') for use in URLs.

curl_escape(url)

curl_unescape(url)

Arguments

url	A character vector (typically containing urls or parameters) to be encoded/decoded

Examples

# Escape strings
out <- curl_escape("foo = bar + 5")
curl_unescape(out)
#> [1] "foo = bar + 5"

# All non-ascii characters are encoded
mu <- "\u00b5"
curl_escape(mu)
#> [1] "%C2%B5"
curl_unescape(curl_escape(mu))
#> [1] "µ"