Dear all, the new CRAN URL checks flag HTTP 301 redirects. While I understand the intent, I think this is unfortunate, because several URL shortener services use 301 redirects, and often a shorter URL is actually better in a manual page than a longer one that can be several lines long in the console and also potentially truncated in the PDF manual.
Some example shorteners that are flagged: > db <- tools:::url_db(c("https://nyti.ms", "https://t.co/mtXLLfYOYE"), > "README") > tools:::check_url_db(db) URL: https://nyti.ms (moved to https://www.nytimes.com/) From: README Status: 200 Message: OK URL: https://t.co/mtXLLfYOYE (moved to https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-47975564) From: README Status: 200 Message: OK ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel