Minor issue returning version number with get_versions

[fontikar]

Hi maintainers!

This is a minor issue!

I wanted to return the version info for a particular doi

get_versions('10.5281/zenodo.3568417')
This is the table that is returned:

             created       date version                    doi
1 2019-12-09 23:13:04 2019-12-09       1 10.5281/zenodo.3568418
2 2019-12-10 00:15:52 2019-12-09       2 10.5281/zenodo.3568429
3 2019-12-19 03:48:40 2019-12-09       3 10.5281/zenodo.3583418
4 2020-12-11 08:38:30 2020-07-08       4 10.5281/zenodo.4316516
5 2020-12-11 08:43:46 2020-12-11       5 10.5281/zenodo.4316550
6 2021-07-14 01:14:53 2021-07-14       6 10.5281/zenodo.5099545
7 2021-07-14 01:25:41 2021-07-14       7 10.5281/zenodo.5099552
8 2021-07-18 06:32:30 2021-07-14       8 10.5281/zenodo.5112001

I noticed the version number does not match the version numbers on the website.

A colleague of mine ran the same line of code and got a different output with correct version numbers

get_versions('10.5281/zenodo.3568417')

        date version                    doi
1 2020-07-08  v2.0.0 10.5281/zenodo.4316516
2 2020-12-11  v2.1.0 10.5281/zenodo.4316550
3 2021-07-14  v3.0.0 10.5281/zenodo.5099545
4 2021-07-14  v3.0.1 10.5281/zenodo.5099552
5 2021-07-14  v3.0.2 10.5281/zenodo.5112001

sessionInfo()
R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Big Sur 11.6

Matrix products: default
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/C/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] reprex_2.0.1 zen4R_0.5-2 

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] compiler_4.1.2   pillar_1.6.4     highr_0.9        tools_4.1.2     
 [5] digest_0.6.29    jsonlite_1.7.2   evaluate_0.14    tibble_3.1.6    
 [9] lifecycle_1.0.1  pkgconfig_2.0.3  rlang_0.4.12     cli_3.1.0       
[13] rstudioapi_0.13  curl_4.3.2       yaml_2.2.1       xfun_0.28       
[17] fastmap_1.1.0    withr_2.4.3      httr_1.4.2       xml2_1.3.3      
[21] knitr_1.36       fs_1.5.1         vctrs_0.3.8      glue_1.5.1      
[25] R6_2.5.1         processx_3.5.2   fansi_0.5.0      rmarkdown_2.11  
[29] callr_3.7.0      clipr_0.7.1      magrittr_2.0.1   ps_1.6.0        
[33] htmltools_0.5.2  ellipsis_0.3.2   assertthat_0.2.1 keyring_1.3.0   
[37] utf8_1.2.2       crayon_1.4.2  ````

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[eblondel]

@fontikar The output you get is the one of the most recent version of zen4R. Your colleague is still running a previous version of zen4R, in which at that time the versions were fetched using from website html instead of API, and where it was limited to the latest versions of a record. Now I switched to the API to get all versions, but for the "version" of the record, it's an incremental number and not the version as specified by whom created the record; I'm going to have a look if we can inherit it and let you know here;

[eblondel]

@fontikar please try to re-install the package from Github.

Doing get_versions('10.5281/zenodo.3568417')

              created       date version                    doi
1 2019-12-09 23:13:04 2019-12-09  v0.1.0 10.5281/zenodo.3568418
2 2019-12-10 00:15:52 2019-12-09  v0.9.0 10.5281/zenodo.3568429
3 2019-12-19 03:48:40 2019-12-09  v0.9.1 10.5281/zenodo.3583418
4 2020-12-11 08:38:30 2020-07-08  v2.0.0 10.5281/zenodo.4316516
5 2020-12-11 08:43:46 2020-12-11  v2.1.0 10.5281/zenodo.4316550
6 2021-07-14 01:14:53 2021-07-14  v3.0.0 10.5281/zenodo.5099545
7 2021-07-14 01:25:41 2021-07-14  v3.0.1 10.5281/zenodo.5099552
8 2021-07-18 06:32:30 2021-07-14  v3.0.2 10.5281/zenodo.5112001

The date corresponds to the metadata date element, which is not necessarily always updated when a new version is created. For that i've added the created date which is the date when the record version was created. A incremental version number is set only when all record versions are unset (which is the same behaviour followed by the Zenodo website to display versions).

Let me know if it's ok now

Best wishes
Emmanuel