[R-pkg-devel] ORCID ID finder via tools::CRAN_package_db() ?

Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:

Meanwhile, I am close to committing a change to R-devel which adds
tools::CRAN_authors_db() with docs

  \code{CRAN_authors_db()} returns information on the authors of the
  current CRAN packages extracted from the \samp{Authors at R} fields in
  the package \file{DESCRIPTION} files, as a data frame with character
  columns giving the given and family names, email addresses,
  \abbr{ORCID} identifier, roles, and comments of the person entries,
  and the corresponding package.

Once make check-all is done ...

Best
-k

PS.  Sorry about tools:::.ORCID_iD_canonicalize(), had run into the same
issue when building the authors db on the CRAN master (which uses
current R release ...)

On 20 August 2024 at 15:47, Kurt Hornik wrote:
| >>>>> Kurt Hornik writes:
| 
| The variant attaches drops the URL and does unique.

Nice. Alas, some of us default to r-release as the daily driver and then

  Error in unname(tools:::.ORCID_iD_canonicalize(o)) : 
    object '.ORCID_iD_canonicalize' not found

Will play with my 'RD' which I keep approximately 'weekly-current'. Quick
rebuild first.

Dirk

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