Make orcidlink.sty inclusion in JSS template conditional

[Enchufa2]

Please allow me to revisit this issue (#493, #495), because since the introduction of the ORCiD feature in #465, we have been experiencing warnings on CRAN for macOS machines. See e.g. this. So far I haven't received any ultimatum from CRAN, but I suspect that this would bite at some point. So I would like to propose to make the inclusion of ORCiD links conditional to the presence of this package (e.g. via \IfFileExists{}{}).

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[cderv]

I am ok to make this package optional, but to clarify, we are using the JSS template as base (the one from https://www.jstatsoft.org/style) which includes orcidlink usage. Making it conditional in our template, means there will be one more manual step when we update. I would suggest you do a PR and if this is simple enough conditional then I'll consider merging. Basically, what would make sense considering Pandoc's template would be to only load the package when orcid is used as an author field (this is when \orcidlink{} command is needed and the package needs to be loaded)

For this one change I guess it is possible, but there could be other issues later on as in your case the real issue is that CRAN servers do not have all the LaTeX requirement available to build JSS tex template. Hopefully, orcidlink in the only issue.

[Enchufa2]

I see. Let me ask on CRAN then whether they are willing to add this file to those machines.

[cderv]

Great - good idea ! Thanks for willing to do that.

I really don't know how they handle (or want to handle) TeX dependencies from CTAN. the sty file needed here is from CTAN package https://ctan.org/pkg/orcidlink that they would need to make available

[Enchufa2]

From Simon Urbanek:

Ok, I have bumped TL to 2022 on arm64 and just installed orcidlink it by hand on x86_64 since we don't have enough disk space to do both there, so hopefully next builds should not issue that warning.

So we can close this.

[cderv]

Awesome ! thanks for the update on this !

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