Generate a DOI for a Bioconductor package — generateBiocPkgDOI

This function makes calls out to the REST API (v2) described here: https://support.datacite.org/docs/api-create-dois. This function creates a new DOI for a Bioconductor package (cannot already exist). The target URL for the DOI is the short Bioconductor package URL.

generateBiocPkgDOI_REST(pkg, authors, pubyear, testing = TRUE)

Arguments

pkg: character(1) package name
authors: character vector of authors (will be "pasted" together)
pubyear: integer(1) publication year
testing: logical(1) If true, will use the apitest user with the password apitest. These DOIs will expire. The same apitest:apitest combination can be used to login to the EZID website for doing things using the web interface. If false, the Bioconductor-specific user credentials should be in the correct environment variables

Value

The DOI as a character(1) vector.

Details

The login information for the "real" Bioconductor account should be stored in the environment variables "EZID_USERNAME" and "EZID_PASSWORD".

The GUI is available here: https://doi.datacite.org/.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  x = generateBiocPkgDOI('RANDOM_TEST_PACKAGE','Sean Davis',1972)
} # }