Could you potentially look for the original website in the internet archive / wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/ and cite that instead?
On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 at 08:42, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2025-04-02 1:28 p.m., Jason Cory Brunson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to submit a new version of a package to CRAN. Among the > > additions is an RMarkdown vignette that uses data from a website that is > > no longer active. For completeness, i'd still like to cite the invalid > > URL, but without formatting it as a hyperlink. What is the preferred way > > to do this? > > > > One StackExchange answer is to surround the URL with <span></span>, but > > this did not remove the hyperlink when i rendered the vignette locally. > > Instead, i surrounded it with back-ticks, which works locally, but i've > > been unable to run Win-Builder checks to see whether this prevents the > > "invalid URLs" NOTE. And, even if the NOTE is prevented, i'm not sure > > this is preferred. > > Why not leave off the scheme, e.g. "www.r-project.org" instead of > "https://www.r-project.org";. > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
