[R-pkg-devel] package problems

[Michael Weylandt]

Hi Dennis,

I

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 9:00 AM Dennis Boos <boos using ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
> R Package Folks,
>
> The automatic checks rejected my package submission. A year ago, I got
> past the automatic checks, but a CRAN person told me to add a doi and
> use \donttest{}.
>
> 1. So I added the doi to the DESCRIPTION file--it seems to work using
> the cran checks in Rstudio and everything looks good when I load the
> package locally.  However, I got this message today when I submitted
>
> Found the following (possibly) invalid DOIs:
>      DOI: 10.1002/insr.12087
>        From: DESCRIPTION
>        Status: Not Found
>        Message: 404
>
> But the paper exists and I have placed it at
>
> https://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~boos/Monte.Carlo.se/
>
> for anyone to check. The package source code is also there.

That DOI doesn't appear to be valid: for example, the doi.org resolver
doesn't find anything for it (see, e.g.,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/insr.12087) giving the error you report.

If you go to the publisher's page for the paper [1] they give a
different DOI -- 10.1111/insr.12087 -- which seems to work just fine.

I'm not sure why the DOI on your copy is not working - it does seem to
go against the whole idea of DOIs...

Hope this helps,
Michael

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/insr.12087