[R-pkg-devel] InvalidUrlException for fontawesome icons in Rmarkdown vignette

[Uwe Ligges]

Perhaps simply ask the CRAN crew to run the checks again, but as you do 
not say which package this is about etc, we can hardly help.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

On 16.05.2021 08:16, Vincent Nijs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I submitted a minor update to a package and ran into the vignette
> warning/error shown. FYI the package change had nothing to do with the
> vignette.
> 
> Flavor: r-devel-windows-ix86+x86_64
> Check: re-building of vignette outputs, Result: WARNING
>    Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
>    --- re-building 'programming.Rmd' using rmarkdown
>    pandoc.exe: Could not fetch
> https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css__;!!Mih3wA!QDKkOEM4b68jQTdP9_B69YPFnkWW3hUKU0TnKHzueExJp5xLhyR22STQL1kQ0BZLBY0$>
>    InvalidUrlException "
> https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css__;!!Mih3wA!QDKkOEM4b68jQTdP9_B69YPFnkWW3hUKU0TnKHzueExJp5xLhyR22STQL1kQ0BZLBY0$>"
> "URL must be absolute"
>    Error: processing vignette 'programming.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
>    pandoc document conversion failed with error 67
>    --- failed re-building 'programming.Rmd'
> 
> I have used the Rmarkdown header below for this package for a number of
> years and it has never caused an issue. The URL is absolute and links
> properly. The vignette also builds fine locally.
> 
> I'm stuck and hope you can shed some light on this problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vincent
> 
> ---
> title: Programming with Radiant
> author: "Vincent R. Nijs, Rady School of Management (UCSD)"
> date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
> output:
>    rmarkdown::html_vignette:
>      css:
> https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css
> vignette: >
>    %\VignetteIndexEntry{Programming with Radiant}
>    %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown}
>    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> ---
> 
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