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

[William Dunlap]

Put backslashes in front of the percent signs in the Rd file's URL:
  \url{http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/publications/pub\%28d7d4ea3d-af1d-487a-b9b6-c0816994ef5a\%29.html}
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Paul Gilbert <pgilbert902 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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