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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Kurt,

I am emailing you directly in extension of a thread from r-package-devel for
which you can see the full (short, five posts) history at
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.packages.devel/581

Not long ago I had the idea of defining macros for GitHub pull requests and
issue tickets.  This is now used in half a dozen packages.  So eg for the
Rblpapi package I use

  \newcommand{\ghpr}{\href{https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/pull/#1}{##1}}
  \newcommand{\ghit}{\href{https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/issues/#1}{##1}}

and that is working just fine from CRAN as per

  https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rblpapi/news.html

and all those links resolve.  Yet as of this morning all these links get me 

 URL: https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/issues/68
    From: inst/NEWS.Rd
    Status: 400
    Message: Bad Request

whereas the link _of course_ resolves fine in the browser.

Is there a way to make the warning go away but let link survive?

Dirk

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