is_valid_url: Check if a URL is valid

In healthyR.data: Data Only Package to 'healthyR'

Check if a URL is valid

Description

This function validates a URL by checking the presence of a scheme and a hostname in the parsed URL.

Usage

is_valid_url(url)

Arguments

url	A character string representing the URL to be checked.

Details

The function uses the httr2::url_parse function to parse the URL and checks if the parsed URL contains a scheme and a hostname. If either is missing, the URL is considered invalid.

Value

A logical value: TRUE if the URL is valid, FALSE otherwise.

Author(s)

Steven P. Sanderson II, MPH

Examples

is_valid_url("https://www.example.com") # TRUE
is_valid_url("not_a_url") # FALSE

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