[R-pkg-devel] ORCID disappearing in auto-generated Authors: field?

[Uwe Ligges]

Yes, older versions of R do not know about ORCID, hence do not get the 
comparison correct.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

On 05.03.2019 20:56, Ben Bolker wrote:
> 
>    PS. This was for R 3.4.4: maybe that's relevant?  (OTOH the CRAN
> oldrel checks aren't triggering this NOTE, and I can't find anything at
> all recent in R's NEWS file ...
> 
>    I may invoke Clarke's third law ("any sufficiently advanced technology
> is indistinguishable from magic"
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws>) and take my
> chances with submitting to CRAN ...
> 
>     cheers
>      Ben Bolker
> 
> 
> On 2019-03-05 2:46 p.m., Ben Bolker wrote:
>>
>>
>>   I'm getting this NOTE on r-hub's linux-x86_64-ubuntu-gcc platform. It
>> seems weird because the Author field was automatically derived from
>> Authors using R (there is no Author: field in the DESCRIPTION file ...)
>>
>>    I think I'm going to write this off as a glitch (I haven't seen it on
>> my own Linux or MacOS systems, or travis, or win-builder ...), but has
>> anyone seen it before?  Am I doing something silly?
>>
>> ====
>> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE
>>
>> 3815#> Author field differs from that derived from Authors using R
>>
>> 3816#> Author: ‘Douglas Bates [aut] (), Martin Maechler [aut] (), Ben
>> Bolker [aut, cre] (), Steven Walker [aut] (), Rune Haubo Bojesen
>> Christensen [ctb] (), Henrik Singmann [ctb] (), Bin Dai [ctb], Fabian
>> Scheipl [ctb] (), Gabor Grothendieck [ctb], Peter Green [ctb] (), John
>> Fox [ctb]’
>>
>> 3817#> Authors using R: ‘Douglas Bates [aut] (0000-0001-8316-9503), Martin
>> Maechler [aut] (0000-0002-8685-9910), Ben Bolker [aut, cre]
>> (0000-0002-2127-0443), Steven Walker [aut] (0000-0002-4394-9078), Rune
>> Haubo Bojesen Christensen [ctb] (0000-0002-4494-3399), Henrik Singmann
>> [ctb] (0000-0002-4842-3657), Bin Dai [ctb], Fabian Scheipl [ctb]
>> (0000-0001-8172-3603), Gabor Grothendieck [ctb], Peter Green [ctb]
>> (0000-0002-0238-9852), John Fox [ctb]’
>>
>> The original field in the DESCRIPTION file is:
>>
>> Authors using R: c(
>>      person("Douglas","Bates", role="aut",
>> 	comment=c(ORCID="0000-0001-8316-9503")),
>>      person("Martin","Maechler", role="aut",
>> 	comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-8685-9910")),
>>      person("Ben","Bolker",email="bbolker+lme4 using gmail.com",
>> role=c("aut","cre"),
>> 	comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-2127-0443")),
>>      person("Steven","Walker",role="aut",
>> 	comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-4394-9078")),
>>      person("Rune Haubo Bojesen","Christensen", role="ctb",
>> 	comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-4494-3399")),
>>      person("Henrik","Singmann", role="ctb",
>> 	comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-4842-3657")),
>>      person("Bin", "Dai", role="ctb"),
>>      person("Fabian", "Scheipl", role="ctb",
>> 	comment=c(ORCID="0000-0001-8172-3603")),
>>      person("Gabor", "Grothendieck", role="ctb"),
>>      person("Peter", "Green", role="ctb",
>> 	comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-0238-9852")),
>>      person("John", "Fox", role="ctb")
>>      )
>>
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