Check if a URL is valid — is_valid

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.

Value

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

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.

Author

Steven P. Sanderson II, MPH

Examples

is_valid_url("https://www.example.com") # TRUE
#> [1] TRUE
is_valid_url("not_a_url") # FALSE
#> [1] FALSE