How to convert relative URL to absolute URL?

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I'm scraping Google News and storing the data in a data frame with two columns - title and URL. But I want the absolute URL, that is the URL of the page that is getting redirected and not the news.google.com/... URL. How do I do that?

news <- function(term) {
  
  html_dat <- read_html(paste0("https://news.google.com/search?q=",term,"&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen"))

  dat <- data.frame(Link = html_dat %>%
                      html_nodes('.WwrzSb') %>% 
                      html_attr('href')) %>% 
    mutate(Link = gsub("./articles/","https://news.google.com/articles/",Link))
  
  news_dat <- data.frame(
    Title = html_dat %>%
      html_nodes('.IFHyqb.DeXSAc .JtKRv') %>% 
      html_text(),
    Link = dat$Link
  )
  
  return(news_dat)
}
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