Using this cool tip to provide the source for this RPub! Although going there creates an Rpub-within-an-Rpub ….
UPDATE 2014-06-04: Earlier in May, Ramnath Vaidyanathan happened across this and reached out to clarify what’s wrong. External links using https:// don’t work, whereas those using http:// do. My original post to RStudio support is here (ha! of course that link doesn’t work on RPubs because it’s https://), where they acknowledge the problem and suggest a workaround. Namely, the proposal is to give such links a target = "_top" or target = "_blank" attribute to have them open correctly in the same page or in a new tab or window, respectively. Let’s test that with two hand-crafted links to my RStudio support post:
Link with target attribute set to "_top" for me, this opens correctly, in the same tab
Link with target attribute set to "_blank" for me, this opens correctly, in a new tab
Original RPub below here
This is an R Markdown document. It demonstrates an external link that, once HTML is published to RPubs, does nothing. All these links do work from the HTML preview I get within RStudio via the “Preview HTML” button.
I noticed this while marking for a course in which most students published their report to RPubs and placed code and data in public github repositories.
So I will use a github link as example.
Try to go here: https://github.com/jennybc/STAT545A
For me, on Mac OS 10.8.4 and in Safari 6.0.5, I must control click and open the link in a new tab. That does work.
For kicks, let me try the link in other ways. For me, I get same behavior as above.
Here’s a non-github link: https://support.rstudio.com
Here’s a GIF Yihui used on his blog: http://i.imgur.com/vGwGF7s.gif
This GIF link does work. I think this has something to do with whether the link can be opened and embedded with the Rpubs framework (sorry, I don’t know the technical term for that).
