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On 16/09/2020 4:51 p.m., Simon Urbanek wrote: > I can't comment for CRAN, but generally, shorteners are considered security risk so regardless of the 301 handling I think flagging those is a good idea. Also I think it is particularly bad to use them in manuals because it hides the target so the user has no idea what hey will get. I agree, and we do have \href{}{} in Rd files and similar in

I don't have an opinion on the URL shorteners, but how about the original question? Redirection can be extremely useful in general. Shortening URLs is only one of its possible applications. FWIW, CRAN uses (303) redirect itself, e.g., https://cran.r-project.org/package=MASS is redirected to https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MASS/index.html Should these "canonical" CRAN links be

Me too. I have changed some valid URLs in \url{} to \verb{} just to avoid these check NOTEs. I do appreciate the check for the validity of URLs in packages, especially those dead links (404), but discouraging URLs with status code other than 200 (such as 301) feels like overdoing the job. After I "hide" links from R CMD check with \verb{} , it will be hard to know if these links are

I can't comment for CRAN, but generally, shorteners are considered security risk so regardless of the 301 handling I think flagging those is a good idea. Also I think it is particularly bad to use them in manuals because it hides the target so the user has no idea what hey will get. Cheers, Simon > On Sep 17, 2020, at 5:35 AM, G?bor Cs?rdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote: >

Right, I am sorry, I did not realize the security aspect here. I guess I unconsciously treated CRAN package authors as a trusted source. Thanks for the correction and clarification, and to CRAN for implementing these checks. :) G. On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:50 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 16/09/2020 4:51 p.m., Simon Urbanek wrote: > > I

Isn't the whole concept of DOI basically link-shortening/redirecting? For example, this link https://doi.org/10.2134/agronj2016.07.0395 redirects to https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.2134/agronj2016.07.0395 As a side note, I got so fed up with CRAN check complaints about (perfectly valid) re-directs that I refuse to use the \url{} tag anymore. Kevin On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at

Hi, I had originally posted regarding an error when trying to install package - GenABEL - it has now become clear that R is not able to connect to the net. Below are a couple of things I've tried with the resulting errors I am running R 2.6.2 on Linux e15 X86 How can I fix this? Thank you! 1) download.file("http://www.nytimes.com", destfile<-tempfile()) Error: trying URL

Dear R-help, There seems to be a web page I am unable to download using RCurl. I don't understand why it won't download: > library(RCurl) > my.url <- "http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?_r=2" > getURL(my.url) [1] "" Other web pages are ok to download but this is the first time I have been unable to download a

Hi, I have a function in R that compares two very large strings for about 1 million records. The strings are very large URLs like:- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/sitesearch_selector.html?query=US+Visa+Laws&type=nyt&x=25&y=8. .. or of larger lengths. The data-frame looks like:- id url 1

Good afternoon from Singapore, When will CentOS 8.0 be released? Thank you. -----BEGIN EMAIL SIGNATURE----- The Gospel for all Targeted Individuals (TIs): [The New York Times] Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba-microwave.html

Hi, What hypervisor/virtual machine monitor and host operating system are you using? On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 19:31, J Martin Rushton via CentOS <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On 24/09/2019 12:16, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > Good evening from Singapore, > > > > Anybody downloaded, installed, and tried CentOS 8.0 1905 yet? > > > >

Good evening from Singapore, Anybody downloaded, installed, and tried CentOS 8.0 1905 yet? Download link from CentOS download mirror near to Singapore: http://mirror.vodien.com/centos/8.0.1905/isos/x86_64/CentOS-8-x86_64-1905-dvd1.iso The DVD ISO filesize is 6.6 GB. I am downloading it right now...Approx. 20 mins more to download completion using 1 Gbps home fiber internet connection.

even for people who didn't like the outcome of the US elections this year, it must have been a joy to see all the nice (and not so nice) graphs that were shown. As an exercise, I recreated the map shown on the NY-Times website [ http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2004/11/03/politics/ 20041103_px_ELECT_GRAPHIC.html ] If you're interested,

It will be interesting to see how many standards get broken, and how many proprietary hooks get thrown into the pot. The bean counters smell some money, and their OS franchise is waning: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/technology/26soft.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

FYI. Reading is free; if you don't have an account it is trivial to sign up, and they're very politically correct, as might be imagined, about using email for selling purposes. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/02/technology/02caller.html?hp

Dear List, Does there exist a function that produces a heat map like this one (image 3 of 4): http://www.tdameritrade.com/tradingtools/options360.html?a=HDY&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%3Fquery%3Dheatmaptype%3Dnyt In addition to colors, two other main features I am intersted in are: 1. Proportionality in the size of the grid. 2. Mose-over capability. I may

I feel your pain re Gnome. Installing CentOS 8 on a VMware VM which uses BIOS boot mode using the graphical installer results in an installer gui which is chopped off at the right. Workaround is to select the install option, hit the tab key, and append vga=819 and hit F10, which starts the graphical installer on a larger virtual display. Or, better still, use EFI boot mode for your VM, and it

Hi, Could you recommend affordable and reliable cloud storage for 50 TB of data? Here are some important factors to consider: 1. Personal/non-commercial use. 2. Must be affordable, since I am unemployed most of the time and have super low levels of income for the past 12 years since I graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2007. 3. Cloud storage provider must not be a

Noted with thanks. ________________________________ From: CentOS <centos-bounces at centos.org> on behalf of Phil Wyett <philwyett at kathenas.org> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2019 1:56 PM To: centos at centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Now that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 has been released... On Fri, 2019-05-10 at 05:46 +0000, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Good afternoon

Hi Folks: **Off Topic** Those interested in clinical trials may find the following of interest: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/health/research/19trial.html It concerns the ethicality of randomizing those with life-threatening disease to relatively ineffective SOC when new "biologically targeted" therapies "appear" to be more effective. While the context may be new, the