From maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch  Fri Jan 11 11:39:06 2008
From: maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch (Martin Maechler)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:39:06 +0100
Subject: [Rd] R-FAQ.html change breaks "R Bugs" link in posting guide.
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>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>>>>     on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:53:50 +0100 writes:

>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>>>>     on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:37:10 +0100 writes:

>>>>> "GaGr" == Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:54:15 -0500 writes:

    GaGr> The link to R Bugs in the posting guide
    GaGr> http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html

    GaGr> is broken.

    MM> What's your definition of broken?

    MM> ok. That it points to the wrong place (even though to the
    MM> correct page)

    GaGr> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#R-Bugs

    GaGr> is currently %20:

    GaGr> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#R%20Bugs

    MM> Yes, but that *does* work for me.

    MM> it works by going to the FAQ but not the the R Bugs section.
    MM> So, Gabor is all correct here. [Please apologize, Gabor!]

    MM> There's a 2nd link in the posting guide that has also stopped working
    MM> namely
    MM> <a
    MM> href="http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Add-on%20packages%20in%20R">
    MM> Add-on packages in R</a>

    MM> due to changes in the R-FAQ.html
    MM> and since R-FAQ.html is auto-constructed from R-FAQ.texi
    MM> which has
    MM> ------------------------------
    MM> @node R Bugs, Acknowledgments, R Programming, Top
    MM> @chapter R Bugs
    MM> ------------------------------

    MM> this seems to be a change in the  Texinfo -> HTML translation,
    MM> and I'd say a rather unfortunate one.

but then, I've checked:  
This is the current default of what 

   makeinfo --html --no-split --css-include=$(srcdir)/Rman.css -D UseExternalXrefs -I$(srcdir) R-FAQ.texi -o R-FAQ.html

delivers (and that's what we end up using in <Rsources>/doc/manual/ ).

I'm updating the posting guide.
Thank you, Gabor, for the initial "heads up"!
Martin



[Rd] R-FAQ.html change breaks "R Bugs" link in posting guide.
Martin Maechler