Actually the wooldridge package does not seem to satisfy any of the specific requests CRAN asked me for. I have checked several other CRAN packages for textbooks and they don't seem to satisfy those requirements either. So this seems to be a new idea from CRAN.
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 11:32 AM Neal Fultz <nfu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure exactly what cran is asking for, but the wooldridge > package is a good example of a text book data set package, so maybe > you can use the same format they did. > > https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/wooldridge/index.html > > Best, > > Neal > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 9:08 AM Charles Geyer <char...@stat.umn.edu> > wrote: > > > > I have a package that has the datasets for Categorical Data Analysis by > > Agresti that do not appear in the book. The whole package is a github > repo > > https://github.com/cjgeyer/CatDataAnalysis. All of the data were > > translated mechanically using the R script foo.R included in the repo > (but > > not in the package) from Agresti's web site > > http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~aa/cda/data.html. > > > > This package seems to be a useful service to students and teachers. The > > data > > are much simpler to use with this package than trying to get the data > from > > Agresti's web page (foo.R has 277 lines of code). > > > > When I submitted the package to CRAN, I got the following response. > > > > > The Description field of the DESCRIPTION file is intended to be a (one > > > paragraph) description of what the package does and why it may be > > > useful. Please elaborate. Tell the users what the datasets are about > and > > > what they contain so they can use them even when they haven't read your > > > book. > > > > > Please fix and resubmit, and document what was changed in the > submission > > > comments. > > > > In an alternate universe without copyright law this seems a reasonable > > request. In this universe it seems to be asking for trouble. I know > about > > fair use, but I am not a lawyer and do not want to walk the borderline > > between fair use and copyright violation. > > > > The package as it is seems OK because it comes from the author's public > web > > site and these data were never in the book. > > > > Please note that I made Alan Agresti (with his acquiescence) the author > of > > the package because it is his book and his data, but I (or rather foo.R) > > did all the work. > > > > I replied to cran.r-project.org, but that was apparently sent to > /dev/null. > > > > This book is IMHO the authoritative textbook on the subject. Amazon > sales > > rank agrees. The book is used for many courses. So this package would > be > > very helpful as is to many students and teachers. > > > > So what to do? Is there any way to get this package on CRAN? > > > > -- > > Charles Geyer > > Professor, School of Statistics > > Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science > > University of Minnesota > > char...@stat.umn.edu > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science University of Minnesota char...@stat.umn.edu [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel