[R-pkg-devel] I changed my vignette's file name to lowercase, then realized the url was case-sensitive

[Dominic Comtois]

My question was in relation to the fact that my package has been
around for a while using this link:

https://cran.r-project.org/package=summarytools/vignettes/Introduction.html

which is now broken, since my last update (uploaded to CRAN a few days ago) uses

https://cran.r-project.org/package=summarytools/vignettes/introduction.html

So yes, I can revert to the previous Introduction.html, but I thought
a more flexible approach would be to add, when I submit my next
release, an "Introduction.html" redirecting to introduction.html.

I was wondering whether that would pose a problem, or whether there
might be a better way to redirect than using the meta tag / refresh
approach.



On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 at 15:51, David Kepplinger
<david.kepplinger using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> According to https://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/htmlweb.html, "URLs in general are case-sensitive", it's not only a CRAN thing.
> Your vignette will be shipped with the package, hence if a user has a case-insensitive file system (like macOS has by default), your workaround would not work (see also Section 1.1 in "Writing R Extensions").
>
> In my opinion the only solution is to fix the links, or go back to the old case. There are plenty of tools around to replace all occurrences of "Introduction.html" to "introduction.html" within your package. Of course that doesn't work for all other links pointing to "Introduction.html" that float around the web…
>
> Best,
> David
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 3:21 PM Dominic Comtois <dominic.comtois using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I changed my "Introduction.html" vignette's name to
>> "introduction.html", realizing only after the fact that CRAN's URLs
>> are case sensitive.
>>
>> Would the solution of adding to my package's source a new
>> Introduction.html file pointing to introduction.html using a <meta
>> http-equiv="refresh" ...> be a viable one? Or is there maybe another,
>> better solution?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Dominic Comtois, summarytools author & maintainer
>>
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