On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb@biostat.ucsf.edu>wrote:

> Analogously to CRAN URL "shortcuts, e.g.
>
>   http://cran.r-project.org/package=digest
>
> expanding to
>
>   http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/digest/index.html,
>
> it would be neat if Bioconductor would support something similar, e.g.
>
>   http://bioconductor.org/package=Biostring
>
> expanding to
>
>   http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/Biostrings.html
>
> Here is a .htaccess RewriteRule (not tested):
>
>   RewriteRule ^package=(.*)$ packages/release/bioc/html/$1.html [NC,L]
>
> The main purpose is to be able to use shorter URLs in texts; the
> current ones can sometimes occupy a complete line of text.
>

I kinda like this idea, also.  I would consider slightly breaking the
analogy with CRAN, though, and not use the "=" sign and just use another
slash.

http://bioconductor.org/package/Biostrings

Sean


>
> Just a suggestion/wish
>
> Henrik
>
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