git: a22657c963e0 - main - Mk/Uses/cran.mk: default WWW to the canonical CRAN package URL

The branch main has been updated by dteske:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=a22657c963e003b738ccc10dc221f7b36c651dd4

commit a22657c963e003b738ccc10dc221f7b36c651dd4
Author:     Devin Teske <dteske@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2026-09-15 23:14:59 +0000
Commit:     Devin Teske <dteske@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2026-09-15 23:14:59 +0000

    Mk/Uses/cran.mk: default WWW to the canonical CRAN package URL
    
    The WWW of older R ports is https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/${PORTNAME}
    The WWW of newer R ports is https://cran.r-project.org/package=${PORTNAME}
    
    There are currently 230 R-cran ports using the older URL and 168 using the
    newer.  R-cran does not recommend the older URL format. If it goes away, we’ll
    have to update WWW on over 200 R-cran ports.
    
    At present, there are 497 R-cran ports setting WWW and all but 99 use either
    the old or new standard URL.
    
    If cran.mk offered a default WWW then we could eliminate the need to maintain
    WWW at the individual port level.
    
    All R-cran ports that set a WWW location that is not on cran directly would
    continue to do-so while the ones that could stand to inherit a sensible default
    could be nimble enough to not have to worry about their old deprecated URL
    format one day not working.
    
    Approved by:    fuz (mentor)
    Reviewed by:    fuz (mentor)
    Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D59678
---
 CHANGES         | 9 +++++++++
 Mk/Uses/cran.mk | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 22010d492aa6..47b126bef06c 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -10,6 +10,15 @@ in the release notes and/or placed into UPDATING.
 
 All ports committers are allowed to commit to this file.
 
+20260914:
+AUTHOR: dteske@FreeBSD.org
+
+  USES=cran now provides a default WWW of
+  https://cran.r-project.org/package=${PORTNAME} when the port does not
+  set WWW. This matches the existing GitHub/GitLab (bsd.sites.mk) and
+  USES=pear defaults. If the project homepage is not the CRAN package
+  page, set WWW in the Makefile as before.
+
 20251111:
 AUTHOR: kiwi@FreeBSD.org
 
diff --git a/Mk/Uses/cran.mk b/Mk/Uses/cran.mk
index 722f55d7e916..7ab03dafeb87 100644
--- a/Mk/Uses/cran.mk
+++ b/Mk/Uses/cran.mk
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ RUN_DEPENDS+=	${LOCALBASE}/bin/R:math/R
 
 PKGNAMEPREFIX?=	R-cran-
 
+WWW?=		https://cran.r-project.org/package=${PORTNAME}
+
 R_LIB_DIR=	lib/R/library
 R_MOD_DIR?=	${R_LIB_DIR}/${PORTNAME}
 PLIST_SUB+=	R_MOD_DIR=${R_MOD_DIR}