[R] "Special" characters in URI

[Gregor GORJANC]

Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> Gregor GORJANC wrote:
...
>> What do you think about this scratch, which afcourse doesn't solve all
>> "special" characters:
>>
>> fixURLchar <- function(URL,
>>                        from = c(" ", "\"", ",", "#"),
>>                        to = c("%20", "%22", "%2c", "%23"))
> 
> 
> Just a comment. It is much safer/easier to use named vectors for
> mapping, e.g.
> 
>  map <- c(" "="%20", "\""="%22", ","="%2c", "#"="%23")
> 
...

Henrik, thanks. So you suggest something like

for (i in seq(along=map)) {
    URL <- gsub(pattern=names(map)[i], replacement=map[i], x=URL)
}

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Lep pozdrav / With regards,
    Gregor Gorjanc

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