Identify the form (IPv4 or IPv6) of a vector of IP addresses. This can also be used to validate IPs.

ip_classify(ip_addresses)

Arguments

ip_addresses
a vector of IPv4 or IPv6 IP addresses.

Value

a vector containing the class of each input IP address; either "IPv4", "IPv6" or, for IP addresses that were not valid, NA.

See also

is_valid et al for logical checks of IP addresses, ip_to_hostname for resolving IP addresses to their hostnames, and ip_to_numeric for converting (IPv4) IP addresses to their numeric representation.

Examples

#IPv4 ip_classify("173.194.123.100")
#> [1] "IPv4" #>
#[1] "IPv4" #IPv6 ip_classify("2607:f8b0:4006:80b::1004")
#> [1] "IPv6" #>
#[1] "IPv6" #Invalid ip_classify("East Coast Twitter is Best Twitter")
#> [1] NA #>
#[1] NA