Links to topics starting with period not working

[ManuelHentschel]

If a topic/function name starts with a period, the links to its page seem to be broken. In the following example

#' Example 1
#' 
#' @seealso [.f3()]
#' @family test
#' @export
.f1 <- function() NULL


#' Example 2
#' 
#' @family test
#' @export
.f2 <- function() NULL


#' Example 3
#' 
#' @export
.f3 <- function() NULL

the names of the generated help pages are e.g.
/docs/reference/dot-f2.html
but the hyperlinks in the see also-section of .f1 point to
/docs/reference/.f2.html,
resulting in an error when trying to follow the link. The hyperlinks on /docs/reference/index.html point to the correct addresses.

The html from the integrated R help server also points to the "wrong" adress, but this seems to be no issue, since the server automatically replaces the leading . with dot-.

As a workaround, manually specifying @name dot-f1 seems to work, but this adds extra entries to the help index (and the redundant @name tags), so I'd rather avoid this.

[maelle]

I wonder whether this has been fixed by #1586

[maelle]

From quick local tests it seems so (so, in the dev version of pkgdown), please feel free to comment if I missed something @ManuelHentschel. 🙂