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

William Dunlap wdunlap at tibco.com
Tue Dec 15 03:22:51 CET 2015


I'm sorry, I hadn't noticed that the URL checks were not done because
of the note
   Checking URLs requires 'libcurl' support in the R build
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Paul Gilbert <pgilbert902 at gmail.com> wrote:
> No, that what I meant by "percent signs escaped". It just gets me back to
> the status 500 error. I think Dirk may be correct that it is a bug in the
> --as-can URL check.
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 12/14/2015 09:10 PM, William Dunlap wrote:
>>
>> 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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