[R] Invalid URL for R documentation

Paul Paul.Domaskis at gmail.com
Mon Jul 6 17:40:53 CEST 2015


Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz <at> me.com> writes:
| It would appear that the HTML and EPUB files for the Release
| versions of the manuals are not present, unless they are in the
| process of being generated right now. The PDFs, dated July 6, 2015,
| are present:
|
|   http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/
|
| They appear to be ok for patched and devel:
|
|   http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/
|   http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/
|
| which are dated July 4 and 5, respectively.
|
| Checking a mirror, the HTML and EPUB files appear to be present for
| the July 3, 2015 dated file versions. So something happened over the
| weekend on the main CRAN server it would seem, depending upon the
| regen cycle timing.
|
| I tried two different browsers, with refreshes, in case there was a
| caching issue of sorts.

Thanks for investigating, Marc.  Interesting that I can actually see
the directory in which the files belong.  Been a long time since I
encountered a server that lets you do that.



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