[Rd] R-FAQ.html change breaks "R Bugs" link in posting guide.
Martin Maechler
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Fri Jan 11 11:39:06 CET 2008
>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>>>> on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:53:50 +0100 writes:
>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>>>> on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:37:10 +0100 writes:
>>>>> "GaGr" == Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
>>>>> on Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:54:15 -0500 writes:
GaGr> The link to R Bugs in the posting guide
GaGr> http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html
GaGr> is broken.
MM> What's your definition of broken?
MM> ok. That it points to the wrong place (even though to the
MM> correct page)
GaGr> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#R-Bugs
GaGr> is currently %20:
GaGr> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#R%20Bugs
MM> Yes, but that *does* work for me.
MM> it works by going to the FAQ but not the the R Bugs section.
MM> So, Gabor is all correct here. [Please apologize, Gabor!]
MM> There's a 2nd link in the posting guide that has also stopped working
MM> namely
MM> <a
MM> href="http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Add-on%20packages%20in%20R">
MM> Add-on packages in R</a>
MM> due to changes in the R-FAQ.html
MM> and since R-FAQ.html is auto-constructed from R-FAQ.texi
MM> which has
MM> ------------------------------
MM> @node R Bugs, Acknowledgments, R Programming, Top
MM> @chapter R Bugs
MM> ------------------------------
MM> this seems to be a change in the Texinfo -> HTML translation,
MM> and I'd say a rather unfortunate one.
but then, I've checked:
This is the current default of what
makeinfo --html --no-split --css-include=$(srcdir)/Rman.css -D UseExternalXrefs -I$(srcdir) R-FAQ.texi -o R-FAQ.html
delivers (and that's what we end up using in <Rsources>/doc/manual/ ).
I'm updating the posting guide.
Thank you, Gabor, for the initial "heads up"!
Martin
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