[R-pkg-devel] URL of a frame (or a vignette)?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 01/09/2019 11:33 a.m., Spencer Graves wrote:
>         What's the difference between
> 
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> https://cran.r-project.org/package=bssm/vignettes/bssm.pdf
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>         and
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> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bssm/vignettes/bssm.pdf
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>         When I tried the former, it automatically changed to the latter.
> Is the former considered to be more stable?

CRAN puts this on every package page:

"Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=xxxx 
to link to this page."

I think one of the checks will complain if it notices you give the link 
in a different form.  I forget which URLs it checks.

Duncan Murdoch