[Bioc-devel] Author ORCID IDs on package landing pages

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Gordon Smyth 
>>>>>     on Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:27:04 +0000 writes:

    > Just reporting a possible issue with the display of author ORCID IDs on Bioconductor package landing pages.
    > On the release (Bioconductor 3.20) package landing pages, ORCID IDs are not displayed, even if they are included in the package DESCRIPTION Author using R, for example:

    > https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/Spectra.html

    > On the devel (Bioconductor 3.21) package landing pages, the text "ORCID: " is displayed next to each author with an ORCID ID, but not the actual ID itself:

    > https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/Spectra.html
    > https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/limpa.html

    > Regards
    > Gordon

Yes, I've learned about this also (for a CRAN package).

The solution is basically to      R CMD build <yourpkg>

where R is  "R-devel" or "R 4.5.0 beta" but not an earlier R version.
...
and the DESCRIPTION in the resulting tar file then actually
*does* check fine even  on older versions of R.

I hope this helps,
Martin