[R-pkg-devel] url checks not working for me

[Bryan Hanson]

At the minimum you should look at the “moved to” URLs and change your links to those (some are outright changes in URLs that were redirected and some are http to https changes).

Bryan

> On Aug 26, 2020, at 8:22 AM, Vincent van Hees <vincentvanhees using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> URL errors in my DESCRIPTION file and package vignette are not picked up
> when I do R CMD check --as-cran or devtools::check(). I only know about
> these errors because CRAN has rejected my package submission and instructed
> me to fix the urls (example at end of this message).
> 
> I am trying to figure out how I can get R CMD check --as-cran to detect
> these URL mistakes. From
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/URL_checks.html I understand that I
> need libcurl installed, which I have.
> 
> Can anyone tell me whether I am using the wrong combination of libcurl
> version, R version, and Ubuntu version? (see versions below). If not, what
> else can I do to get the URL checks to work?
> 
> Thanks, Vincent
> 
> vincent using vincent-VB:~$ curl-config --version
> *libcurl 7.58.0*
> 
> vincent using vincent-VB:~$ curl -V
> *curl 7.58.0* (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1
> zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0
> librtmp/2.3
> Release-Date: 2018-01-24
> Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3
> pop3s rtmp rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
> Features: AsynchDNS IDN IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM NTLM_WB
> SSL libz TLS-SRP HTTP2 UnixSockets HTTPS-proxy PSL
> 
> vincent using vincent-VB:~$ R --version
> *R version 4.0.2* (2020-06-22) -- "Taking Off Again"
> Copyright (C) 2020 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> 
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the
> GNU General Public License versions 2 or 3.
> For more information about these matters see
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
> 
> vincent using vincent-VB:~$ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: *Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS*
> Release: 18.04
> Codename: bionic
> 
> Example of most recent URL mistakes in my package detected by CRAN package
> submission process which I could not detect locally:
> Found the following (possibly) invalid URLs: URL:
> http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0142533
> (moved to
> https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0142533)
> From: inst/CITATION Status: 200 Message: OK URL: https://geneactiv.org/
> (moved to https://www.activinsights.com/) From: inst/doc/GGIR.html Status:
> 200 Message: OK URL: https://www.accelting.com/ (moved to
> https://accelting.com/) From: inst/doc/GGIR.html Status: 200 Message: OK
> URL: https://www.physiology.org/doi/10.1152/japplphysiol.00421.2014 (moved
> to https://journals.physiology.org/doi/10.1152/japplphysiol.00421.2014)
> From: inst/CITATION Status: 200 Message: OK
> 
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