v1

rurl v1 Release Notes

This is the first stable GitHub release of rurl, published as v1.
It reflects package version 1.0.0 as declared in DESCRIPTION.

What rurl Provides

rurl is a vectorized R toolkit for URL parsing, normalization, extraction, permutation, and matching.

Core capabilities:

• Safe parsing with safe_parse_url() and safe_parse_urls()
• URL normalization with configurable handling for:
  • protocol
  • www
  • case
  • trailing slash
  • index pages
  • path normalization
  • scheme-relative URLs
  • host encoding (IDNA/Unicode)
  • path encoding
• URL component accessors (get_* helpers)
• URL permutation with permute_url()
• Dataset joins based on canonical or permuted URLs:
  • canonical_join()
  • permutation_join()
• Built-in memoization caches with rurl_clear_caches()

Included in This Release

This v1 release includes the current 1.0.0 functionality, including:

• Flexible normalization controls (case_handling, trailing_slash_handling, and related options)
• URL permutation generation for robust matching workflows
• Canonical and permutation-based URL joins
• Improved handling of malformed schemes and schemeless URLs with ports
• Safer parsing fallbacks and improved IPv6 parsing reliability

Installation

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("bart-turczynski/rurl")

Notes

• This release tag is v1.
• The R package version for this release is 1.0.0.
• For full historical package changes, see NEWS.md.