NEWS can't be retrieved if you are using Posit Package Manager

[kipper]

Hi, I've observed that if you are using Posit Package Manager (PPM) the packages fail to infer the appropriate news url when they are installed.

Warning messages:
1: In .rs.rpc.get_package_news_url("fracdiff", "C:/Users/user001/AppData/Local/Programs/R/R-4.3.2/library") :
  Failed to infer appropriate NEWS URL: using 'news/news.html' as best-guess candidate
2: In .rs.rpc.get_package_news_url("fracdiff", "C:/Users/user001/AppData/Local/Programs/R/R-4.3.2/library") :
  Failed to infer appropriate NEWS URL: using 'news/news.html' as best-guess candidate

Besides, when you click on the NEWS icon in the Update Packages window of the RStudio IDE, it redirects you to localhost and fails to show the target NEWS page of the R package.

[kipper]

Note also that the packages can't retrieve the NEWS URL when they are installed using Posit Package Manager.

Warning messages:
1: In .rs.rpc.get_package_news_url("nlme", "C:/Users/user001/AppData/Local/R/cache/R/renv/sandbox/R-4.3/x86_64-w64-mingw32/1e360f03") :
  Failed to infer appropriate NEWS URL: using 'news/news.html' as best-guess candidate
2: In .rs.rpc.get_package_news_url("mgcv", "C:/Users/user001/AppData/Local/R/cache/R/renv/sandbox/R-4.3/x86_64-w64-mingw32/1e360f03") :
  Failed to infer appropriate NEWS URL: using 'news/news.html' as best-guess candidate
3: In .rs.rpc.get_package_news_url("cluster", "C:/Users/user001/AppData/Local/R/cache/R/renv/sandbox/R-4.3/x86_64-w64-mingw32/1e360f03") :
  Failed to infer appropriate NEWS URL: using 'news/news.html' as best-guess candidate
4: In .rs.rpc.get_package_news_url("nlme", "C:/Users/user001/AppData/Local/R/cache/R/renv/sandbox/R-4.3/x86_64-w64-mingw32/1e360f03") :
  Failed to infer appropriate NEWS URL: using 'news/news.html' as best-guess candidate

[kipper]

This issue that prevents to get the NEWS of the packages is also affecting Posit Cloud if you use PPM as the CRAN repo.