[Bioc-devel] Package home pages with >1 URL have broken links

[Sean Davis]

Thanks, Gordon and Oleksii, for taking the time to report. Take a look now. The tracking issue is here:

https://github.com/seandavi/bioc-infrastructure/issues/101

Sean


From: Bioc-devel <bioc-devel-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf of Gordon Smyth <gksmyth using outlook.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2026 at 07:26
To: Kern, Lori <Lori.Shepherd using RoswellPark.org>; bioc-devel using r-project.org <bioc-devel using r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Package home pages with >1 URL have broken links

Thanks.

Well, there's so many features that have been removed that I hesitate to list them. None are essential because the information can be found elsewhere, if one knows where to look, but then the home page itself is non-essential in that sense.

Author ORCIDs are now rendered a plain text URLs instead of as links. The info bar at the top of the page giving package rank and time in Bioc is gone. Links to reference manual, NEWS, download report, and code browser are all gone.

Cheers
Gordon

From: Kern, Lori <Lori.Shepherd using RoswellPark.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 7 October 2026 21:54
To: Gordon Smyth <gksmyth using outlook.com>; bioc-devel using r-project.org
Subject: Re: Package home pages with >1 URL have broken links

I have captured the reported bug in an issue on the github.

What other features are missing on the pages?  We can look to bring useful features back.


Lori Kern

Bioconductor Core Team

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Elm & Carlton Streets

Buffalo, New York 14263

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From: Bioc-devel <bioc-devel-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf of Gordon Smyth <gksmyth using outlook.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2026 5:59 AM
To: bioc-devel using r-project.org <bioc-devel using r-project.org>
Subject: [Bioc-devel] Package home pages with >1 URL have broken links

The example on page 4 of the "Writing R Extensions" manual shows that the URL field fo the DESCRIPTION file can contain a list of comma-separated URLs.

Until very recently, the two URLs given in edgeR's DESCRIPTION file were rendered correctly on the edgeR home page. After the most recent website revision, though, the two URLs are now pasted together into one href URL, which of course fails if a users clicks on it.
https://secure-web.cisco.com/17JGUUqMOZgzrDHGQ90yT7ElKp6QPbhssqJ2Qi6H5WYeJargL5Y8WOuoPOwUQUj6BH6Y6o3vNzAzGw1rbaxP-o7HLJEOUlTnuMHHrfmf8uS2ACGAphiF1G96zau5Sz14SbkEbj_JLaqUbpSHKK7zAjB_0ZsWzG0TuHqn1MLv59ec3Ija5CZ3ihjqWW1alh4eLs2yn-vmE8TLFX-68xALNVZ-2Jqt3527XLJu4ZXMlXvaxOfxvyVCrrncJIJOt4gT1pXdKZIsVUvhgm0Wrg2iSWWzqopYmjAlkxeKzYJFNZRbGHZH20FXUeeiCW2gJK52p/https%3A%2F%2Fbioconductor.org%2Fpackages%2F3.23%2Fbioc%2Fhtml%2FedgeR.html

PS. I did much prefer the old home pages! A lot of features that I found useful have now been removed.

Regards
Gordon

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