Duplicate file description #32

adam3smith · 2019-12-05T03:37:01Z

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The "description" for files is repeated, resulting in a duplicate data.frame column name which causes all sorts of issues. Not sure if this is a problem with the API or the R-package, but figured I'd start here. CC @pdurbin

## load package
library("dataverse")


## code goes here
Sys.setenv("DATAVERSE_SERVER" = "dataverse.harvard.edu")

obrien_files <- get_dataset("doi:10.7910/DVN/WOT075")[['files']]
colnames(obrien_files)

 [1] "description"         "label"               "restricted"         
 [4] "version"             "datasetVersionId"    "categories"         
 [7] "id"                  "persistentId"        "pidURL"             
[10] "filename"            "contentType"         "filesize"           
[13] "description"         "storageIdentifier"   "rootDataFileId"     
[16] "md5"                 "checksum"            "creationDate"       
[19] "originalFileFormat"  "originalFormatLabel" "originalFileSize"   
[22] "UNF"                 "tabularTags"

## session info for your system
sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.3 (2017-11-30)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

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

other attached packages:
[1] dplyr_0.8.0.1   dataverse_0.2.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_1.0.1        rstudioapi_0.10   xml2_1.2.0        magrittr_1.5     
 [5] tidyselect_0.2.5  R6_2.4.0          rlang_0.3.4       httr_1.4.1       
 [9] tools_3.4.3       pkgbuild_1.0.2    cli_1.1.0         withr_2.1.2      
[13] remotes_2.1.0     assertthat_0.2.1  rprojroot_1.3-2   tibble_2.1.1     
[17] crayon_1.3.4      processx_3.3.0    purrr_0.3.2       callr_3.1.1      
[21] ps_1.3.0          curl_3.3          glue_1.3.1        pillar_1.4.2     
[25] compiler_3.4.3    backports_1.1.4   prettyunits_1.0.2 jsonlite_1.6     
[29] pkgconfig_2.0.2

pdurbin · 2019-12-05T03:52:51Z

If anything, it's probably a bug or at least a weirdness in the Dataverse API, which shows "description" twice. Here's a screenshot from https://dataverse.harvard.edu/api/datasets/export?exporter=dataverse_json&persistentId=doi%3A10.7910/DVN/WOT075

@adam3smith I'd encourage you to create an issue at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues but I'd be afraid that if we delete one of the "description" fields from the Dataverse API that an integration would break. It's probably better to think of this as a wart in the Dataverse API, something to fix in v2 or whatever. 😄

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