[R-pkg-devel] status of "possibly invalid URL/403 error" NOTEs?

On Aug 13, 2023, at 3:17 PM, Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> wrote:

?  I have a package whose documentation includes the reference \doi{10.1137/18M1186411} which redirects here:
https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/18M1186411

Running R CMD check --as-cran on the package gives

Found the following (possibly) invalid URLs:
 URL: https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/18M1186411
   From: man/llig.Rd
   Status: 403
   Message: Forbidden

 I can access this perfectly well in the browser.

 Is there any way to avoid this (other than, say, including the URL in a form that does *not* provide a link so that R CMD check won't try to access it? (As Uwe Ligges says [here](https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2020q1/005195.html) (for a more obviously problematic case), "mention the URL in plain text but not link"

 Here Hadley Wickham says that these NOTEs can be ignored

https://twitter.com/hadleywickham/status/1358170607314235392

but "Hadley said it on twitter" is not an ideal source. The CRAN repository policy says that packages must pass checks without "significant" notes, but it's always hard to know what's significant and what's not ...

 There's a thread here: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2020q1/005171.html

  Tangentially: is there a more convenient way to search the r-package-devel archives than googling (e.g.) "site:https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel  403" ?

I had a similar issue with a paper on JSTOR. Usually CRAN let it through. However, I eventually switched from URL to DOI and now the user needs to find the free source so to rid myself of the constant hassle. CRAN really doesn?t like redirects. I guess you could wrap it in \code{} so as not to hyperlink.

Avi

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On Aug 13, 2023, at 3:17 PM, Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> wrote:

?  I have a package whose documentation includes the reference \doi{10.1137/18M1186411} which redirects here:
https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/18M1186411

Running R CMD check --as-cran on the package gives

Found the following (possibly) invalid URLs:
  URL: https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/18M1186411
    From: man/llig.Rd
    Status: 403
    Message: Forbidden

  I can access this perfectly well in the browser.

  Is there any way to avoid this (other than, say, including the URL in a form that does *not* provide a link so that R CMD check won't try to access it? (As Uwe Ligges says [here](https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2020q1/005195.html) (for a more obviously problematic case), "mention the URL in plain text but not link"

  Here Hadley Wickham says that these NOTEs can be ignored

https://twitter.com/hadleywickham/status/1358170607314235392

but "Hadley said it on twitter" is not an ideal source. The CRAN repository policy says that packages must pass checks without "significant" notes, but it's always hard to know what's significant and what's not ...

  There's a thread here: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2020q1/005171.html

   Tangentially: is there a more convenient way to search the r-package-devel archives than googling (e.g.) "site:https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel  403" ?