Hello, URL errors in my DESCRIPTION file and package vignette are not picked up when I do R CMD check --as-cran or devtools::check(). I only know about these errors because CRAN has rejected my package submission and instructed me to fix the urls (example at end of this message).
I am trying to figure out how I can get R CMD check --as-cran to detect these URL mistakes. From https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/URL_checks.html I understand that I need libcurl installed, which I have. Can anyone tell me whether I am using the wrong combination of libcurl version, R version, and Ubuntu version? (see versions below). If not, what else can I do to get the URL checks to work? Thanks, Vincent vincent@vincent-VB:~$ curl-config --version *libcurl 7.58.0* vincent@vincent-VB:~$ curl -V *curl 7.58.0* (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3 Release-Date: 2018-01-24 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtmp rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: AsynchDNS IDN IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz TLS-SRP HTTP2 UnixSockets HTTPS-proxy PSL vincent@vincent-VB:~$ R --version *R version 4.0.2* (2020-06-22) -- "Taking Off Again" Copyright (C) 2020 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License versions 2 or 3. For more information about these matters see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/. vincent@vincent-VB:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: *Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS* Release: 18.04 Codename: bionic Example of most recent URL mistakes in my package detected by CRAN package submission process which I could not detect locally: Found the following (possibly) invalid URLs: URL: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0142533 (moved to https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0142533) From: inst/CITATION Status: 200 Message: OK URL: https://geneactiv.org/ (moved to https://www.activinsights.com/) From: inst/doc/GGIR.html Status: 200 Message: OK URL: https://www.accelting.com/ (moved to https://accelting.com/) From: inst/doc/GGIR.html Status: 200 Message: OK URL: https://www.physiology.org/doi/10.1152/japplphysiol.00421.2014 (moved to https://journals.physiology.org/doi/10.1152/japplphysiol.00421.2014) From: inst/CITATION Status: 200 Message: OK [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel