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
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