Error in build_site()

[barcaroli]

When I try to build a site for package R2BEAT (successful so far) I get this error:

build_site()
-- Installing package into temporary library --------------------------------------------------
== Building pkgdown site =======================================================
Reading from: 'D:/Google Drive/Sampling/R2BEAT/R2BEAT_1.0.5'
Writing to: 'D:/Google Drive/Sampling/R2BEAT/R2BEAT_1.0.5/docs'
-- Initialising site -----------------------------------------------------------
-- Building home ---------------------------------------------------------------
Writing 'authors.html'
Error:
! in callr subprocess.
Caused by error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle):
! URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
ℹ See $stdout for standard output.

[maelle]

👋 @barcaroli I cloned your package and was able to build the pkgdown website with pkgdown's latest version.

I'd recommend

• re-trying, in case it was a temporary problem.
• building the pkgdown website on GitHub Actions. To set things up, run usethis::use_pkgdown_github_pages(). Note that you will first need to declare the dependency on the package ReGenesees that is only on GitHub. You can run use_dev_package("ReGenesees") to achieve this, or manually add these lines to DESCRIPTION:

Remotes:
  DiegoZardetto/ReGenesees

Another note: you can get rid of the Author field in DESCRIPTION since that file already contains Authors@R. There's also an useless space after the package name. I made a PR for these two tweaks barcaroli/R2BEAT#1

I'm closing the issue since it does not seem to be a bug with pkgdown (sorry if it turns out I am wrong).

[maelle]

Actually removing the whitespace after the package name (part of my PR) might be quite crucial.

[barcaroli]

Very good, it works! Thanks a lot, Maelle!