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

[Joshua Wiley]

Thanks & my apologies for missing this. I got caught up reading how CRAN
checks URLs, HTTP status codes, etc. and forgot to search before asking.

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 10:02 PM Ben Bolker <bbolker using gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> 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
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