Get parent url from an url

getbase_url() gets the base parent from an url.

Usage

get_base_url(url)

Arguments

url

character, address of the url.

Details

get_base_url() keeps unchanged links that do not start exactlty by "http://" or "https://".

Examples

get_base_url("http://parent/child/archive.csv.gz")
#> [1] "http://parent"
get_base_url("https://parent/child/archive.csv.gz")
#> [1] "https://parent"
get_base_url("parent/child/archive.csv.gz")
#> [1] "parent/child/archive.csv.gz"