Roaringly Acknowledge Organizations with ROR IDs in DESCRIPTION <p>A few years ago, the R community started using <a href="https://orcid.org/\">ORCID</a> (&ldquo;Open Researcher and Contributor ID&rdquo to persistently and uniquely identify individual authors of packages in DESCRIPTION.
The idea is the following: you enter authors&rsquo; 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"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nf">person</span><span class="p">/span><span class="s">"Maëlle"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">"Salmon"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">"maelle@ropensci.org"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">role</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nf">c</span><span class="p">/span><span class="s">"cre"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">"aut"</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="n">comment</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nf">c</span><span class="p">/span><span class="n">ORCID</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"0000-0002-2815-0399"</span><span class="p">)</span>
</span></span></code></pre></div><p>Although anyone could use your ORCID, maliciously or inadvertently<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>, 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!</p>
https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/05/09/ror/

rOpenSci News Digest, April 2025 <!-- Before sending DELETE THE INDEX_CACHE and re-knit! -->
<p>Dear rOpenSci friends, it&rsquo;s time for our monthly news roundup! <!-- blabla --> You can read this post <a href="/blog/2025/04/28/news-april-2025">on our blog</a>. Now let&rsquo;s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci!</p>
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rOpenSci HQ
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Event: Career Paths for U.S. Federal Data Scientists
</h3><p>rOpenSci and Openscapes are lucky to have as members many U.S. federal employees who enrich our work and community. In a time of great uncertainty for so many government workers, we want to support our members who are considering their next career steps.</p>
https://ropensci.org/blog/2025..../04/28/news-april-20

eDNAjoint: a Modeling Tool for Environmental DNA Data https://ropensci.org/blog/2025..../04/10/ednajoint-a-m

Supporting rOpenSci Mentors with Practical Tools https://ropensci.org/blog/2025..../04/08/mentoring-too

rOpenSci News Digest, March 2025 https://ropensci.org/blog/2025..../03/27/news-march-20