pkgdown has a problem with downloads

[dankelley]

I raised an issue at r-lib/pkgdown#2774, in which I explain the gist, so I won't get into details here. This will not be a CRAN-blocking issue, because I can always put the example code in an if (FALSE) block or similar, if needed.

[dankelley]

FYI, my sessionInfo() is as follows

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin20
Running under: macOS 15.0

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib 
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-x86_64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib;  LAPACK version 3.12.0

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

time zone: America/Halifax
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
[7] base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.4.1 tools_4.4.1