[R] CRAN Taskviews returns 404

Achim Zeileis Achim.Zeileis at wu-wien.ac.at
Mon Feb 18 16:09:34 CET 2008


On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:15:54 +0000 Neil Shephard wrote:

> On Feb 18, 2008 2:02 PM, Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk>
> wrote:
> >
> > But what gave you the idea that
> > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Views/ should work? Google
> > seems not to know it.
> >
>
> Its the target for the link to the TaskViews from
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/index.html (which was reached
> itself by following the "packages" link at
> http://cran.r-project.org/).
>
> Google does know about http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Views/
> but that simply redirects to the current location.
>
> Its a tangled web out there!

The "web" directory on CRAN was introduced two days ago. Hence the
problems with some old links and the old information on Google. I've
corrected the task view link and a few others. Let us know if there are
further problems or broken links.

thx,
Z

> Neil
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