Re: [Rd] reserving a package name
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. Thanks Uwe, this is just as I had expected. Best wishes, Adrian -- Adrian Dusa University of Bucharest Romanian Social Data Archive Sos. Panduri nr.90 050663 Bucharest sector 5 Romania __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] reserving a package name
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 __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] reserving a package name
On 11/07/2014 12:35, Spencer Graves wrote: 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. That would be rejected as wasting everyone's time. A CRAN package is expected to have examples (or failing that tests or a vignette). 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 __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] reserving a package name
On 11.07.2014 13:35, Spencer Graves wrote: 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. Although we typically do not discuss CRAN matters here: CRAN won't accept such a package (or other too trivial ones). I hope we do not need to add this to the policies. Best, Uwe Ligges 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 __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] reserving a package name
On 10.07.2014 23:46, Adrian Dușa wrote: Dear All, While wanting to create a package using the name DDI (which stands for Data Documentation Initiative), I sent an email to the DDI Alliance and ask if they would mind, knowing they are now in the process of copyrighting this brand. The answer I got was negative (due to possible infringements on copyright issues), but they thanked me for raising this matter and now asking if a package name can actually be reserved. As far as I know, it works on a first come, first served basis, but I think it is still worth asking. Since this is not an r-help issue, I have used this list instead. 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. Best, Uwe Ligges Thanks in advance for any answer, Adrian __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
