I would like to check if url redirects to another page in R

Question

I need to check if the url redirects to another page in R. Is it possible ?

Answer 1

Check out the httr package, and there the GET function:

> library(httr)
> names(GET("http://www.stackoverflow.com"))
[1] "url"         "handle"      "status_code" "headers"     "cookies"
[6] "content"     "times"       "config"     
> GET("http://www.stackoverflow.com")$status_code
[1] 200