On 14 December 2015 at 19:46, Paul Gilbert wrote:
| I am having some trouble with a NOTE produced by an R-devel check of URL
| references. The reference was
|
| \url{http://som.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/reports/themeF/2005/05F10/}
|
| which the --as-cran check finds has moved and notifies about the
| redirected address
|
|
|
http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/publications/pub(d7d4ea3d-af1d-487a-b9b6-c0816994ef5a).html
|
| My browser finds this, and does not distinguish it from
|
|
|
http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/publications/pub%28d7d4ea3d-af1d-487a-b9b6-c0816994ef5a%29.html
|
| However, I cannot get either of these forms of the new address to work
| in the man page and/or CITATION file \url{}. The first gives
|
| Found the following (possibly) invalid URLs:
| URL:
|
http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/publications/pub(d7d4ea3d-af1d-487a-b9b6-c0816994ef5a).html
| From: man/estFAmodel.Rd
| man/estTSFmodel.Rd
| man/tsfa-package.Rd
| inst/CITATION
| Status: 500
| Message: Internal Server Error
|
| even though I can cut and paste that address from the error message into
| my browser and it works fine. The second form results in a problem
| parsing the Rd file, the end of the section is not recognized and for
| the next section I get "unexpected section header '\examples'". I think
| the percent signs cause the end of the line with the closing } to be
| treated as a comment, but if I put the } on a new line the status 500
| occurs. With the percent signs escaped in the second form I get the
| status 500 error message as in the first form.
|
| Is this a bug in the R-devel --as-cran URL check, or does anyone see
| something I am missing?
For that reason, I (and some other folks that I talked to) ended up removing
URLs creating such reports from documentation. The webchecker used by CRAN
in Vienna appears to be broken. It *should* follow redirect, yet it does not.
And if you can't beat'em ... you end up avoiding'em.
Dirk
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