[R-pkg-devel] --as-cran URL check

I'm sorry, I hadn't noticed that the URL checks were not done because
of the note
   Checking URLs requires 'libcurl' support in the R build
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
No, that what I meant by "percent signs escaped". It just gets me back to
the status 500 error. I think Dirk may be correct that it is a bug in the
--as-can URL check.

Paul

On 12/14/2015 09:10 PM, William Dunlap wrote:
Put backslashes in front of the percent signs in the Rd file's URL:

\url{http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/publications/pub\%28d7d4ea3d-af1d-487a-b9b6-c0816994ef5a\%29.html}
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Paul Gilbert <pgilbert902 at gmail.com>
wrote:

I am having some trouble with a NOTE produced by an R-devel check of URL
references. The reference was

  \url{http://som.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/reports/themeF/2005/05F10/}

which the --as-cran check finds has moved and notifies about the
redirected
address

http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/publications/pub(d7d4ea3d-af1d-487a-b9b6-c0816994ef5a).html

My browser finds this, and does not distinguish it from

http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/publications/pub%28d7d4ea3d-af1d-487a-b9b6-c0816994ef5a%29.html

However, I cannot get either of these forms of the new address to work in
the man page and/or CITATION file  \url{}. The first gives

Found the following (possibly) invalid URLs:
   URL:

http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/publications/pub(d7d4ea3d-af1d-487a-b9b6-c0816994ef5a).html
     From: man/estFAmodel.Rd
           man/estTSFmodel.Rd
           man/tsfa-package.Rd
           inst/CITATION
     Status: 500
     Message: Internal Server Error

even though I can cut and paste that address from the error message into
my
browser and it works fine. The second form results in a problem parsing
the
Rd file, the end of the section is not recognized and for the next
section I
get "unexpected section header '\examples'". I think the percent signs
cause
the end of the line with the closing } to be treated as a comment, but if
I
put the } on a new line the status 500 occurs. With the percent signs
escaped in the second form I get the status 500 error message as in the
first form.

Is this a bug in the R-devel --as-cran URL check, or does anyone see
something I am missing?

Thanks,
Paul Gilbert

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