Roaringly Acknowledge Organizations with ROR IDs in DESCRIPTION

A few years ago, the R community started using ORCID (“Open Researcher and Contributor ID”) to persistently and uniquely identify individual authors of packages in DESCRIPTION. The idea is the following: you enter authors’ ORCID as a specially named comment in their person() object. For instance I can be represented by: person("Maëlle", "Salmon", , "[email protected]", role = c("cre", "aut"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2815-0399")) Although anyone could use your ORCID, maliciously or inadvertently1, you definitely benefit from using your ORCID in your work. In the case of R packages, CRAN pages and pkgdown websites feature a pretty icon linking to your ORCID profile that in turn can link to your favorite online presence. Recognition! Personal branding!