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From: pro|jcn@@h @end|ng |rom gm@||@com (J C Nash)
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 13:31:02 -0500
Subject: [Rd] URL checks
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Is this a topic for Google Summer of Code? See
https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2021/wiki


On 2021-01-09 12:34 p.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> The idea of 'white lists' to prevent known (and 'tolerated') issues, note,
> warnings, ... from needlessly reappearing is very powerful and general, and
> can go much further than just URL checks.
> 
> I suggested several times in the past that we can look at the format Debian
> uses in its 'lintian' package checker and its override files -- which are
> used across thousands of packages there.  But that went nowhere so I stopped.
> 
> This issue needs a champion or two to implement a prototype as well as a
> potential R Core / CRAN sponsor to adopt it.  But in all those years no smoke
> has come out of any chimneys so ...  ?\_(?)_/? is all we get.
> 
> Dirk
>



[Rd] URL checks
J C Nash