[R-pkg-devel] CRAN index replaces ampersand in BugReports URL with HTML entity

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Mikael Jagan 
>>>>>     on Mon, 7 Nov 2022 10:48:34 -0500 writes:

    > Hello,

    > It was raised on the Matrix bug tracker [1] that the BugReports URL
    > on the CRAN index [2] is broken.  The URL in our DESCRIPTION file [3]
    > is fine, but contains an ampersand, which is improperly replaced with
    > the corresponding HTML entity in the HTML sources of the index.

    > Hence this does not affect bug.report(package="Matrix"), but _does_
    > make our bug tracker inaccessible to people accustomed to visiting
    > the CRAN page for links.

    > Can this be repaired?

    > Mikael

    > [1] https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=6787&group_id=61&atid=294
    > [2] https://cran.r-project.org/package=Matrix
    > [3] https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/?atid=294&group_id=61

This has been fixed already, by Kurt Hornik -- thank you very
much!

Martin