Hi Kurt,

On 20 August 2024 at 14:29, Kurt Hornik wrote:
| I think for now you could use something like what I attach below.
| 
| Not ideal: I had not too long ago starting adding orcidtools.R to tools,
| which e.g. has .persons_from_metadata(), but that works on the unpacked
| sources and not the CRAN package db.  Need to think about that ...

We need something like that too as I fat-fingered the string 'ORCID'. See
fortune::fortunes("Dirk can type").

Will the function below later. Many thanks for sending it along.

Dirk

| 
| Best
| -k
| 
| ********************************************************************
| x <- tools::CRAN_package_db()
| a <- lapply(x[["Authors@R"]],
|             function(a) {
|                 if(!is.na(a)) {
|                     a <- tryCatch(utils:::.read_authors_at_R_field(a), 
|                                   error = identity)
|                     if (inherits(a, "person")) 
|                         return(a)
|                 }
|                 NULL
|             })
| a <- do.call(c, a)
| a <- lapply(a,
|             function(e) {
|                 if(is.null(o <- e$comment["ORCID"]) || is.na(o))
|                     return(NULL)
|                 cbind(given = paste(e$given, collapse = " "),
|                       family = paste(e$family, collapse = " "),
|                       oid = unname(o))
|             })
| a <- as.data.frame(do.call(rbind, a))
| ********************************************************************
| 
| > Salut Thierry,
| 
| > On 20 August 2024 at 13:43, Thierry Onkelinx wrote:
| > | Happy to help. I'm working on a new version of the checklist package. I 
could
| > | export the function if that makes it easier for you.
| 
| > Would be happy to help / iterate. Can you take a stab at making the
| > per-column split more robust so that we can bulk-process all non-NA entries
| > of the returned db?
| 
| > Best, Dirk
| 
| > -- 
| > dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org

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