[R-pkg-devel] Note on check of DOI: string

[Roger Bivand]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2019, Uwe Ligges wrote:

>
>
> On 02.04.2019 18:35, Roger Bivand wrote:
>>  Using https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/submission_checklist.html, I
>>  have a real but non-conformant DOI string in my DESCRIPTION file:
>>
>>  https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990830)18:16<2147::AID-SIM179>3.0.CO;2-I
>>
>>  giving in check --as-cran:
>>
>>  Found the following (possibly) invalid DOIs:
>>     DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990830)18:16<2147::AID-SIM179
>>       From: DESCRIPTION
>>       Status: Bad Request
>>       Message: 400
>>
>>  as parsing the string appears not to parse the embedded ">" correctly. Is
>>  escaping possible? Easiest would be just dropping the DOI in this case, as
>>  it is not rendering correctly. It looks like the pattern string in
>>  tools/R/doitools.R line 33 is over-eager.
>>
>>  Hints welcome,
>
> URLencode() it for the DESCRIPTION file.

Thanks, that is much simpler than expecting processing DESCRIPTION to sort 
it out: URLencode() the string in R and copy/paste the output into the 
DESCRIPTION file.

Best wishes,

Roger

>
> Best,
> Uwe
>
>
>>  Roger
>> 
>
>

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