[R-pkg-devel] DOI / URL issues in package vignettes

[Ben Bolker]

On 2022-05-18 6:56 a.m., Ivan Krylov wrote:
> В Wed, 18 May 2022 12:06:03 +1000
> Joshua Wiley <jwiley.psych using gmail.com> пишет:
> 
>> curl -I -L https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000434
>>
>> gives the below on my system, which (I think?) means you get the
>> expected redirect for a DOI and then a 403 forbidden error.  On the
>> win-builder.r-project.org service (which is fantastic) I get a status
>> 400 bad request.
>>
>> For other DOIs, I am regularly getting a 503 service unavailable
>> status from both curl on my machine and winbuilder, but working fine
>> in browser (e.g., for:   https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.7171).
> 
> Many journals employ overzealous anti-robot protection systems that
> discriminate against URL checks performed by R, but as long as the DOI
> itself is correct, the package is likely to be accepted by CRAN despite
> the NOTE resulting from the failing check. You can mention it in the
> submission comment to be sure.

   And there was a previous discussion on the list here:

https://hypatia.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2022q2/008042.html