Thanks Peter and Martin. Cheers, Tal
----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:49 PM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think Kurt has this in hand since the same issue affected > src/base/NEWS.html. The fix seems to be just not to copy the html formatted > NEWS to the file distribution folders and have any links in there point to > doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.html instead. The relative links to the parent > directory would be a pain to sort out. > > (Cc: Kurt, as he may not be aware that there is a fix to apply to > bin/windows/base/index.html as well.) > > -pd > > On 20 Jan 2015, at 13:05 , Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> > wrote: > > >>>>>> 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 > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
