urltools

Overview

About

Maintained by Os KeyesFirst published 2014-12-0916 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A toolkit for all URL-handling needs, including encoding and decoding, parsing, parameter extraction and modification. All functions are designed to be both fast and entirely vectorised. It is intended to be useful for people dealing with web-related datasets, such as server-side logs, although may be useful for other situations involving large sets of URLs.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("urltools", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("Ironholds/urltools")

Development version from Ironholds/urltools. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-urltools

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-urltools

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-urltools

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.65

81.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-05-11
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-05-10
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OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 190 wordsVignettesYes · staticpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 89%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 58%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

516.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #600 · ~1.4K/day · ~43K/mo

Releases R versions

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32.7K30 days

115.8K90 days

516.1K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ironholds/urltools

134Stars

30Forks

17Open issues

4Open PRs

12Releases

255Commits

23Contributors

rurlaccess-logsdata-import

255 commits · Last activity 2025-04-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-30 · 1322026-07-07 · 134

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ironholds/urltools on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (3)

Rcppmethodstriebeard

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (2)

testthat knitr

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

C++ 1,984 (38%)R 1,395 (26%)C 940 (18%)Rd 780 (15%)Vignettes 182 (3%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S4 generic6

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 5 max
Test cases: 66 / 0.65 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

81%

Expression

81.6%

Tests / Examples

81.2% / 71% ex

Functions

130 28 exported

Complexity

1.2 avg / 5 max

Call network

130 nodes / 44 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

130 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
host_extract exp	1	0%
suffix_refresh exp	5	0%
tld_extract exp	2	0%
tld_refresh exp	1	0%
.onLoad	1	0%
suffix_load	2	0%

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 2

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
suffix_dataset	data.frame	8,652 × 2	–
tld_dataset	vector	–	–

People & History

People (11)

Maintainer (1)

Os Keyes

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.7.2

Authors (3)

Os Keyes

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.7.2

Jay Jacobs

Author · added in 1.2.0

Drew Schmidt

Author · added in 1.6.0

Contributors (6)

Mark Greenaway

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Xueyuan Jiang

Contributor · added in 1.7.0

Maryam Khezrzadeh

Contributor · added in 1.5.1

Peter Meilstrup

Contributor · added in 1.7.0

Alex Pinto

Contributor · added in 1.5.1

Bob Rudis

Contributor · added in 1.2.1

Copyright holders (2)

Jeff Bezanson

Copyright holder · added in 1.6.0

Adam M. Costello

Copyright holder · added in 1.6.0

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Oliver Keyes

no longer listed · 0.5 to 1.7.1

Costello

no longer listed · 1.7.3.1

Package Timeline

16 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-12-09
Total releases: 16 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 65 KB / 2 files
Download size: 121 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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