Hi Colin, I'm surprised this wasn't captured by the url checker on CRAN. Are you suggesting a new check on package descriptions for the urls present? In that case I guess it could be part of the standard R CMD check.
Lluís On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 at 17:17, Colin Gillespie <csgilles...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Just want to flag a few packages: > > MatrixLDA: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MatrixLDA/index.html > The URL is technically valid - ajmols...@github.io/ - but returns a > 404. Almost certainly a typo. > > redistmetrics: > https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/redistmetrics/index.html > Not a valid URL: https::/github.com/alarm-redist/redistmetrics/ > > yarrr: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/yarrr/ > It looks like a lapsed domain, and Cypro folks have grabbed it. > > Thanks > > Colin > > Ps I only found the last package because the name caught my attention > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
