Does R have any package for parsing out the parts of a URL?

Question

I have a list of urls that I would like to parse and normalize.

I\'d like to be able to split each address into parts so that I can identify \"www.google.com/test/in

Answer 1

If you like tldextract one option would be to use the version on appengine

require(RJSONIO)
test <- c("test.server.com/test", "www.google.com/test/index.asp", "http://test.com/?ex")
lapply(paste0("http://tldextract.appspot.com/api/extract?url=", test), fromJSON)
[[1]]
   domain subdomain       tld 
 "server"    "test"     "com" 

[[2]]
   domain subdomain       tld 
 "google"     "www"     "com" 

[[3]]
   domain subdomain       tld 
   "test"        ""     "com"