On 7/11/2014 1:48 AM, Adrian Dușa wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Uwe Ligges
<lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
On 10.07.2014 23:46, Adrian Dușa wrote:
Dear All,
[...]
Well, you cannot reserve a package name. Actually you can choose any legal name.

The story is different if you want to submit it to BioConductor or CRAN, then 
the name must be unique in the BioC + CRAN world. More details in the CRAN 
policies, for example.
And yes, it works on n a first come, first served basis there.


Please read CRAN policy: "http://cran.fhcrc.org/web/packages/policies.html";. I don't think they have a policy for minimum content beyond passing "R CMD check" without errors or significant notes and respecting the time of the CRAN maintainers by not submitting updates more often than every 1-2 months. A "package" consisting solely of the following DESCRIPTION passed "R CMD check" for me just now; you should confirm that with the latest versions of R (and Rtools if you run Windows). I can't speak for CRAN maintainers, but it looks to me like submitting a package containing only a DESCRIPTION file should reserve the name you want --- assuming it's already available.


      Hope this helps.
      Spencer


Package: tstPkg
Type: Package
Title: empty package
Version: 0.0-0
Date: 2014-07-11
Author: Adrian Duja
Maintainer: Adrian Dusa <dusa.adr...@unibuc.ro>
Description:
  reserving package name
License: GPL (>= 2)
Depends:
Suggests:

Thanks Uwe, this is just as I had expected.
Best wishes,
Adrian


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