As a follow-up, Kurt tells me [1] that Achim and he looked into this issue and extended the 'person' class to support
+## Example for a contributor whose real name is unknown and cannot be +## determined: +person(given = "@zeileis", role = "ctb", comment = "GitHub user") which has now been committed as c88299. Cheers, Dirk [1] With a nod to please post for him here for 'reasons' ... -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel