I don't have an opinion on the URL shorteners, but how about the
original question? Redirection can be extremely useful in general.
Shortening URLs is only one of its possible applications. FWIW, CRAN
uses (303) redirect itself, e.g.,
https://cran.r-project.org/package=MASS is redirected to
https:/
Right, I am sorry, I did not realize the security aspect here. I guess
I unconsciously treated CRAN package authors as a trusted source.
Thanks for the correction and clarification, and to CRAN for
implementing these checks. :)
G.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:50 PM Duncan Murdoch
wrote:
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> On 16
> There may be cases when changing the class of the left-hand side make sense
> (such as one subclass of "Matrix" to another) but certainly not for the base
> R vector classes.
I'm not sure what you mean by "not for the base R vector classes".
Historically, the simpler class (or mode) gets coerc
