[R-pkg-devel] URLs in DESCRIPTION file

[Charles Plessy]

Le Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 06:35:35PM +0300, Ivan Krylov via R-package-devel a écrit :
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> PubMed "protects" itself from automated requests and returns an error code:
> 
> $ curl -I https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2730180/
> HTTP/2 403

Quick minor correction: this is PubMed Central, not PubMed.

A PubMed URL to the same article would work:

curl -I https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19718451/
HTTP/2 200 

Have a nice day,

Charles Plessy