>>>>> Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com>
>>>>> on Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:30:56 +0200 writes:
> I am not sure where to post this.
Maybe you could try to contact the CRAN maintainer by e-mail.
(E-mail: you know the thing people did before they "posted" everything :-) ;-))
but I agree that it is not easy to find e-mail addresses nowadays..
More seriously: Thank you, Tal!
> I am looking at the NEWS file here:
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/NEWS.R-3.1.2.html
> And the links at the bottom seem to be broken.
> This link:
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/NEWS.2
> Should be this:
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/NEWS.2
well, there yes.
If you look at the more typical place of the NEWS,
which you get to quickly from the Main CRAN or R-project web
page, namely
http://www.r-project.org/news.html
and its bottom link
http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/NEWS.html
then on the bottom of that pakage, there, even the ...../NEWS.2.html fails.
> CHANGES in previous versions
> -
> Older news can be found in text format in files NEWS.0
> <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/NEWS.0>, NEWS.1
> <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/NEWS.1> and NEWS.2
> <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/NEWS.2> in the ‘doc’ directory.
> News in HTML format for *R* versions from 2.10.0 to 2.15.3 is in
> NEWS.2.html <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/NEWS.2.html>.
As you probably know these are all autogenerated from the
source file <Rsrc>/doc/NEWS.Rd
((and so there is some reason why posting to R-devel may be somewhat ok))
and the relevant part of that is
\section{CHANGES in previous versions}{
\itemize{
\item Older news can be found in text format in files
\ifelse{html}{\href{../NEWS.0}{NEWS.0}, \href{../NEWS.1}{NEWS.1}
and \href{../NEWS.2}{NEWS.2}}{\file{NEWS.0}, \file{NEWS.1} and
\file{NEWS.2}}
in the \file{doc} directory. News in HTML format for
\R versions from 2.10.0 to 2.15.3 is in
\ifelse{html}{\url{NEWS.2.html}}{\file{doc/html/NEWS.2.html}}.
}
}
*and* that source produces a NEWS.html which works correctly in
the important use of R's "builtin HTML help",
i.e. for me what I get after help.start(), I presume that's
also the toplevel help page Rstudio users see.
And there, the "../NEWS.O" (relative link) *is* the correct location.
Using relative links is a very good idea here, as all that
should work completely offline.
The task here is to adapt all the other "published" versions of the
generated NEWS.html files to point to a web (as opposed to
local/relative) URL.
Yes ``just another'' tweak for the CRAN web page generation
scripts...
Martin
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