[R-pkg-devel] NOTE on URLs

[Michael Chirico]

this is a mistake in R CMD check.

and it looks like Kurt just fixed it too :)

https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/commit/f3495aec2388881bac38f76b8fbd4396b33b36b9

On Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 9:18 AM Tony Wilkes <tony_a_wilkes using outlook.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> The 'broadcast' package produces a NOTE on r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
> (not on the other OS) regarding the BugReports URL on my Description file.
>
> The NOTE (found here
> https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc/broadcast-00check.html)
> says:
> "The BugReports field in DESCRIPTION has
> https://github.com/tony-aw/broadcast/issues/ which should likely be
> https://github.com/tony-aw/broadcast/issues/issues instead."
>
> I tried the suggested URL given by CRAN (
> https://github.com/tony-aw/broadcast/issues/issues) but it re-directs me
> to https://github.com/tony-aw/broadcast/issues/created_by/issues, which
> is not what I intended.
>
> The URL I placed on the DESCRIPTION file myself (
> https://github.com/tony-aw/broadcast/issues/) works correctly for me. It
> works on multiple different web browsers. It works whether I'm logged in on
> GitHub or not. It works also when I clear all my cookies on my browser. It
> works on browsers I've never used before. And it works - according to
> CRAN's own checks - on all other OS configurations.
>
> I know CRAN checks URLs differently, but it is weird that this NOTE is
> only produced for r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, and not the other OS
> configurations.
>
> Is this a mistake on my part, or a mistake on the part of CRAN?
> If it is on my part, what did I do wrong?
> If it is a mistake on the part of CRAN, I would like to kindly to ask them
> to correct whatever happened on their side.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Tony
>
>
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