[R] Invalid URL for R documentation

[peter dalgaard]

Wrong diagnosis. The actual issue is a version-compare blunder for texinfo in the configure script. This has been mended for r-patched, but r-release requires a workaround.

-pd

On 07 Jul 2015, at 10:33 , peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some changes were made in connection with the release in order to have better automation of things like this (we now centralize information on the versions in a VERSION-INFO.dcf). 
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> I expect that something went wrong; maybe one of the periodic CRAN housekeeping scripts doesn't quite do what it should. Have patience and use the R-patched versions in the interim...
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> - Peter
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>> On 06 Jul 2015, at 17:36 , ProfJCNash <profjcnash at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm also getting a 404. Tried https just in case.
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>> But
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>> http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/manuals.html
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>> works and I can copy the link for R-intro and it works there.
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>> http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.html
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>> Very odd.
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>> JN
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>> On 15-07-06 11:24 AM, Paul wrote:
>>>> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.html
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