arXiv entry manipulation for manual url?

[kisungyou]

Hi, I'm not sure whether this question is properly directed at Rdpack. In my inst file, I have a following entry @article{example, title = {A new method to simulate the {Bingham} and related distributions in directional data analysis with applications}, journal = {arXiv:1310.8110 [math, stat]}, author = {Kent, John T. and Ganeiber, Asaad M. and Mardia, Kanti V.}, month = oct, year = {2013}, note = {arXiv: 1310.8110}, } and Rdpack generates the following entry in my Rd file Kent JT, Ganeiber AM, Mardia KV (2013). “A new method to simulate the Bingham and related distributions in directional data analysis with applications.” arXiv:1310.8110 [math, stat]. 1310.8110, http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8110..

When submitting a package to CRAN, however, this is accepted as a note with a message that arxiv entry needs to be accompanied with https, not http. So I was wondering if this can be handled at Rdpack level to give a manual url.

[GeoBosh]

Thanks for the report.

I think that the problem comes from rbibutils but since that package is also mine, I will fix it. There is no need to report there.

[GeoBosh]

I have now fixed this in rbibutils. Thanks for reporting it and the nice example.

I need to check all reverse dependencies of Rdpack, which needs some time, before updating rbibutils on CRAN.

But you don't need to wait for rbibutils to be updated on CRAN. Just install it from Github and build your package with it. Feel free to reopen the issue if problems occur.

[kisungyou]

Thanks for your update! Also, I had some cases where the CRAN check process was not able to fetch the url's written in Rd files. This scenario was another reason to ask for an option to remove certain bib fields in general.

On Thu, May 6, 2021, 7:44 AM Georgi N. Boshnakov @.***> wrote:

I have now fixed this in rbibutils. Thanks for reporting it and the nice example.

I need to check all reverse dependencies of Rdpack, which needs some time, before updating rbibutils on CRAN.

But you don't need to wait for rbibutils to be updated on CRAN. Just install it from Github and build your package with it. Feel free to reopen the issue if problems occur.

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[GeoBosh]

You can file a request for this, with more specifics. It is not a problem to add further macros but if a URL is not reliable it may be better to remove it from the bib file. On the other hand, if it is glitch that cran can't access it, it is probably not your problem. But I may be missing something, requests for improvement are welcome.