Hi Spencer, The reason is because the R website is doing frame forwarding rather than URL forwarding. You'll need to right-click on the Packages and open it into a new window for the address bar to reflect the change. In any case the following link will change accordingly:
https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/ If you really want to know what is happening then below is the difference: For frame forwarding it will look like this: <FRAME src="navbar.html" name="contents" frameborder=0> While for URL forwarding it will look like this: <a href="web/packages/" target="banner">Packages</a><br> Hope it helps, ~p -----Original Message----- From: R-devel [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Spencer Graves Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2016 9:28 PM To: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: [Rd] URL for a vignette on CRAN? How can I get a full URL for anything on CRAN? Using Safari, Google Chrome, and Firefox under OS X 10.11.2, I select a CRAN mirror from "www.r-project.org" and get a URL like "https://cran.rstudio.com/";. Then I select "packages" and get a different web page, but the URL displayed doesn't change. I'd like to access the full URL of a vignette in a package, but modern web browsers hide that detail. Thanks, Spencer Graves ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
