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utility to make html link from URL

Source: R/URL_FUNCTIONS_part1.R
url_linkify.Rd

Convert URL to HTML link that opens in new tab

Usage

url_linkify(url, text, newtab = TRUE, encode = TRUE, reserved = FALSE)

Arguments

url

string that is URL

text

string that is label

newtab

unless set to FALSE, link opens in a new browser tab

encode

unless set to FALSE, it uses utils::URLencode() first

reserved

if encode=T, this parameter is passed to utils::URLencode()

Value

url_linkify('epa.gov','EPA') returns "<a href=\"epa.gov\", target=\"_blank\">EPA</a>"

Details

Consider also the golem utility enurl() as modified in this pkg, except that enurl()

  1. does not make a link that would open in new tab,

  2. skips utils::URLencode() and

  3. returns "shiny.tag" class

  4. now sets text=url, while url_linkify() uses a shorter text

enurl("https://google.com", "click here") url_linkify("https://google.com")

enurl("https://google.com")

url_linkify("https://google.com", "click here")

See also

enurl()