[BioC] "Special" characters in URI

[Gorjanc Gregor]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francois Pepin [mailto:fpepin at cs.mcgill.ca]
> Sent: tor 2005-05-03 17:24
> To: Gorjanc Gregor
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [BioC] "Special" characters in URI
>  
> There are safe ways of encoding URLs that contain funny characters:
>   (space) %20
> [ %5B
> ] %5D
> 
> so your url would be:
> 
> URL<-'http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?term=gorjanc%20g%5Bau%5D'
> 
> That makes your snippet work just fine.
> 
> http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14143
> has the list.
> 
> Francois

> On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 19:46, Gorjanc Gregor wrote:
>> from = c(" ", "\"", ",", "#"),
>> to = c("%20", "%22", "%2c", "%23"))

Francois, thank you for this. I know of this solution, however I just wanted to know, how
others handle with it and if there is any R utility for that.

Thans again!

Lep pozdrav / With regards,
    Gregor Gorjanc

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