Hi, I am in the process of submitting a "workflow" article about an R package (which is onCRAN) to F1000Research. The associate editor that I am dealing with wants a "DOI" for the source code of the package being described in the manuscript. I have already explained that CRAN archives all versions of packages, and I sent him the URL to the archive page for the package, However, he still seems to believe that a DOI needs to be assigned by some site like Zenodo.
I haven't yet responded by pointing out that CRAN has been archiving all versions of packages since at least the year 2000, it has mirrors all over the world, and the URL/URI used here is likely to be far more permanent than the DOI from Zenodo. Nor have I pointed out that there are more than 15,000 packages at CRAN, nor that not a single R user would ever think to go look on Zenodo for an R package. Does anyone have other suggestions for how to respond? (I know; I could just put the [expletive] thing into Zenodo and move on, but creating a permanent identifier for something that will *never *be accessed just seems stupid.) Thanks, Kevin [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel