[Rd] Link to NEWS.2 in NEWS is broken

[Tal Galili]

Thanks Peter and Martin.

Cheers,
Tal



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On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:49 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think Kurt has this in hand since the same issue affected
> src/base/NEWS.html. The fix seems to be just not to copy the html formatted
> NEWS to the file distribution folders and have any links in there point to
> doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.html instead. The relative links to the parent
> directory would be a pain to sort out.
>
> (Cc: Kurt, as he may not be aware that there is a fix to apply to
> bin/windows/base/index.html as well.)
>
> -pd
>
> On 20 Jan 2015, at 13:05 , Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> wrote:
>
> >>>>>> Tal Galili <tal.galili at gmail.com>
> >>>>>>    on Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:30:56 +0200 writes:
> >
> >> I am not sure where to post this.
> >
> > Maybe you could try to contact the CRAN maintainer by e-mail.
> > (E-mail: you know the thing people did before they "posted" everything
> :-) ;-))
> > but I agree that it is not easy to find e-mail addresses nowadays..
> >
> > More seriously:  Thank you, Tal!
> >
> >> I am looking at the NEWS file here:
> >> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/NEWS.R-3.1.2.html
> >> And the links at the bottom seem to be broken.
> >> This link:
> >> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/NEWS.2
> >
> >> Should be this:
> >> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/NEWS.2
> >
> > well, there yes.
> >
> > If you look at the more typical place of the NEWS,
> > which you get to quickly from the Main CRAN or R-project web
> > page, namely
> >      http://www.r-project.org/news.html
> > and its bottom link
> >    http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/NEWS.html
> >
> > then on the bottom of that pakage, there, even the ...../NEWS.2.html
> fails.
> >
> >
> >> CHANGES in previous versions
> >> -
> >> Older news can be found in text format in files NEWS.0
> >> <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/NEWS.0>, NEWS.1
> >> <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/NEWS.1> and NEWS.2
> >> <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/NEWS.2> in the ‘doc’ directory.
> >> News in HTML format for *R* versions from 2.10.0 to 2.15.3 is in
> >> NEWS.2.html <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/NEWS.2.html>.
> >
> > As you probably know these are all autogenerated from the
> > source file  <Rsrc>/doc/NEWS.Rd
> >
> >  ((and so there is some reason why posting to R-devel may be somewhat
> ok))
> >
> > and the relevant part of that is
> >
> > \section{CHANGES in previous versions}{
> >  \itemize{
> >    \item Older news can be found in text format in files
> >    \ifelse{html}{\href{../NEWS.0}{NEWS.0}, \href{../NEWS.1}{NEWS.1}
> >      and \href{../NEWS.2}{NEWS.2}}{\file{NEWS.0}, \file{NEWS.1} and
> >      \file{NEWS.2}}
> >    in the \file{doc} directory.  News in HTML format for
> >    \R versions from 2.10.0 to 2.15.3 is in
> >    \ifelse{html}{\url{NEWS.2.html}}{\file{doc/html/NEWS.2.html}}.
> >  }
> > }
> >
> > *and* that source produces a NEWS.html which works correctly in
> > the important use of R's "builtin HTML help",
> > i.e. for me what I get after help.start(),  I presume that's
> > also the toplevel help page Rstudio users see.
> > And there, the "../NEWS.O" (relative link) *is* the correct location.
> >
> > Using relative links is a very good idea here, as all that
> > should work completely offline.
> >
> > The task here is to adapt all the other "published" versions of the
> > generated NEWS.html files to point to a web (as opposed to
> > local/relative) URL.
> >
> > Yes ``just another'' tweak for the CRAN web page generation
> > scripts...
> >
> > Martin
> >
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