[R-pkg-devel] proper way to cite an invalid URL

[Jason Cory Brunson]

Thank you both!

Nicholas, i did check the Wayback Machine; the URL was never archived, 
nor was the domain itself (in case you're curious, www.ibge.Goiásv.br/).

Duncan, that worked at preventing the hyperlink locally; thank you. But 
i got a new error from Win-Builder (the development version via 
devtools::check_win_devel() but not the release version via 
devtools::check_win_release()). It seems to apply to all URLs and DOIs, 
though i did not get it on any previous check:

Checking URLs failed with message:
   there is no package called 'curl'

Checking DOIs failed with message:
   there is no package called 'curl'

Cory

On 4/2/25 20:28, Nicholas Tierney wrote:
> Could you potentially look for the original website in the internet 
> archive / wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/ and cite that instead?
>
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 at 08:42, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>     On 2025-04-02 1:28 p.m., Jason Cory Brunson wrote:
>     > Hello,
>     >
>     > I'm trying to submit a new version of a package to CRAN. Among the
>     > additions is an RMarkdown vignette that uses data from a website
>     that is
>     > no longer active. For completeness, i'd still like to cite the
>     invalid
>     > URL, but without formatting it as a hyperlink. What is the
>     preferred way
>     > to do this?
>     >
>     > One StackExchange answer is to surround the URL with
>     <span></span>, but
>     > this did not remove the hyperlink when i rendered the vignette
>     locally.
>     > Instead, i surrounded it with back-ticks, which works locally,
>     but i've
>     > been unable to run Win-Builder checks to see whether this
>     prevents the
>     > "invalid URLs" NOTE. And, even if the NOTE is prevented, i'm not
>     sure
>     > this is preferred.
>
>     Why not leave off the scheme, e.g. "www.r-project.org
>     <http://www.r-project.org>" instead of
>     "https://www.r-project.org".
>
>     Duncan Murdoch
>
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