r - How to split a url

Question

I want to split the below string in R

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797998

Here I want to split the URL and only want to get the value as 797998.

Answer 1

> library('httr')
> parse_url('https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797998')
$scheme
[1] "https"

$hostname
[1] "bugzilla.mozilla.org"

$port
NULL

$path
[1] "show_bug.cgi"

$query
$query$id
[1] "797998"


$params
NULL

$fragment
NULL

$username
NULL

$password
NULL

attr(,"class")
[1] "url"