[R-pkg-devel] DOI in of package in DESCRIPTION file

[Uwe Ligges]

On 16.12.2019 15:34, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> Hi
> 
> UI am preparing my package for CRAN. I have a DOI for my package, and would like to add Ito the DESCRIPTION file.
> 
> At the moment, I am adding
> 
> 	DOI: https://zenodo.org/record/3229615

This is not a DOI, the DOI is actually

10.5281/zenodo.3229615

and we do not have a field fo it, but you can cite it within the 
Description field and link to it via a sentence and DOI such as:

"See R.M. Krug and O. Petchey (2019) <DOI:10.5281/zenodo.3229615>."

Best,
Uwe Ligges


> 
> To the DESCRIPTION file. This raises not an error during check, but tells me, that DOI is a unknown field.
> 
> Is there a recommended way, of adding the DOI of a package to the DESCRIPTION file? I did not find anything when googling.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rainer
> 
> 
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