<p>A few years ago, the R community started using <a href="https://orcid.org/">ORCID</a> (“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 <code>person()</code> object. For instance I can be represented by:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-r" data-lang="r"&g …