High-performance Unicode and Punycode encoding/decoding for internationalized domain names. Provides RFC 3492 compliant conversion functions with a focus on URL processing and data analysis workflows. Addresses limitations in existing R packages for handling international domain names in web scraping and URL parsing applications.
| Version: | 1.0.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5.0) |
| Imports: | Rcpp (≥ 1.0.0) |
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp |
| Suggests: | testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown |
| Published: | 2026-06-11 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.punycoder (may not be active yet) |
| Author: | Bart Turczynski [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Bart Turczynski <bartek+punycoder at turczynski.pl> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/bart-turczynski/punycoder/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://github.com/bart-turczynski/punycoder |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| SystemRequirements: | GNU libidn2 (optional, for native punycode backend) |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | punycoder results |
| Reference manual: | punycoder.html , punycoder.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Introduction to punycoder (source, R code) |
| Package source: | punycoder_1.0.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: punycoder_1.0.0.zip, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: punycoder_1.0.0.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): punycoder_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): punycoder_1.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): punycoder_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): punycoder_1.0.0.tgz |
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