From comaths at hotmail.com  Wed Aug 28 18:09:57 2013
From: comaths at hotmail.com (comaths)
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:09:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Rd] Rename the package published on CRAN
In-Reply-To: <521E1239.3000801@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
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Dear Uwe,

Thanks for your reply. Then I will keep the original name.

Best,

Comaths


Uwe Ligges-3 wrote
> On 27.08.2013 18:38, comaths wrote:
>> Hello Folks,
>>
>> I have an R package published on CRAN and I want to rename it for the
>> next
>> version, something like from "rName" to "rNAME". I have read the CRAN
>> policy, but did not find any topic regarding to this.  So does anybody
>> know
>> whether there is any CRAN policy for this? Thanks!
> 
> Actually you cannot: CRAN had to archive rName at first, but then no 
> other package with the name but different capitalization can be added to 
> CRAN, since that name is taken and packages work on file level where 
> some operating systems cannot distinguish capitalization appropriately 
> enough, hence the name rNAME is not available after archival of rName 
> ... The is a simple technical restriction.
> 
> Even with a really different name, renaming packages should be reduced 
> to an absolute minimum and would probably only accepted for legal 
> concerns related to inappropriate package names.
> 
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> C
>>
>>
>>
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[Rd] Rename the package published on CRAN
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