[R-pkg-devel] Package manual built by CRAN (Xposted from R-help)

[Duncan Murdoch]

This sounds like a LaTeX bug in whatever system CRAN is using to produce 
the PDF.  Like you, I don't see footnotes, I see the link inline with a 
complete URL.  I think you'd get the footnotes if the LaTeX hyperref.sty 
file is not found, but there may be other ways to trigger that option.

Duncan Murdoch

On 25/07/2019 1:45 p.m., Helmut Schütz wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> recently I noticed an unexpected effect. The PDF-manual built from the
> package’s .Rd-files looked different to what I was used to beforeand to
> the one rendered locally. Specifically: If the reference-section looks
> like this
> 
> \references{
>     foo \href{bar}{baz}
>     ...
> }
> 
> previously "foo" was intended (like a normal paragraph), "bar" formatted
> in red and "baz" the URL.
> 
> Example of what I got instead:
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/replicateBE/replicateBE.pdf
> (first occurrence at page 5).
> 
> In the references there are no direct links but a numbered footnotes in
> a mono-spaced font running beyond the right margin of the page. The two
> links of page 5:
> 
> In ABE.Rd
> https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/scientific-guideline/guideline-investigation-bioequivalence-rev1_en.pdf
> 
> https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/scientific-guideline/guideline-pharmacokinetic-clinical-evaluation-modified-release-dosage-forms_en.pdf
> 
> 
> ABE.Rd is correctly rendered into ABE.html
> 
> In the two footnotes of the PDF links are truncated
> https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/scientific-guideline/guideline-investigation-bioequivalence-rev1_
> 
> https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/scientific-guideline/guideline-pharmacokinetic-clinical-evaluation-modified-release-dosage-forms_
> 
> Of course, both are punished with a HTTP 404.
> 
> Cheers,
> Helmut
> 
> PS: I’m aware that
> \references{
>     \enumerate{
>       \item foo \href{bar}{baz}
>     }
> }
> produces *exactly* this effect. Didn't use it.
>