[R-pkg-devel] --as-cran URL check

[Paul Gilbert]

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?

Thanks,
Paul Gilbert