Navigate to a new url.

Source: R/session.R

jump_to() takes a url (either relative or absolute); follow_link takes an expression that refers to a link (an <a> tag) on the current page.

jump_to(x, url, ...)

follow_link(x, i, css, xpath, ...)

Arguments

x

A session.
url

A URL, either relative or absolute, to navigate to.
...

Any additional httr configs to apply to this request.
i

You can select with:

an integer

selects the ith link

a string

first link containing that text (case sensitive)
css

Nodes to select. Supply one of css or xpath depending on whether you want to use a CSS or XPath 1.0 selector.
xpath

Nodes to select. Supply one of css or xpath depending on whether you want to use a CSS or XPath 1.0 selector.

Examples

# \donttest{
s <- html_session("http://hadley.nz")
s <- s %>% follow_link("github")

#> Navigating to http://github.com/hadley/
s <- s %>% back()
s %>% follow_link("readr")

#> Navigating to https://readr.tidyverse.org
#> <session> https://readr.tidyverse.org
#>   Status: 200
#>   Type:   text/html; charset=utf-8
#>   Size:   21144
# }