Daniel Lewandowski <daniel <at> nextpagesoft.net> writes: > > Has anybody noticed that if field URL in DESCRIPTION contains a uri with > 66 or more characters, then file DESCRIPTION in the resulting package > includes a line break at the beginning? > > So this (source DESCRIPTION): > > URL: > http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/data-tools/ seroincidence-calculator-tool/Pages/default.aspx
> > becomes (again file DESCRIPTION, but inside the package) > > URL: > http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/data-tools/seroincidence-calculator-tool/ Pages/default.aspx > > This has been tested with R on Windows 8.1 (devel 01/04/2015 and 3.1.3) > and Linux Mint (3.1.3). It has many sad implications including not > acceptance of such packages to CRAN. > (links line-broken above to make gmane happy). Haven't tested, but seems it would not be *too* hard to trace through the code to see what's happening in the package-building process. Two thoughts: (1) as a workaround, could you use a URL-shortener such as tinyurl? tinyurl allows you to specify a somewhat meaningful name for the shortened URL, e.g. http://tinyurl.com/reproducible-000 (2) this feels like it is more suitable for r-de...@r-project.org Ben Bolker ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
