Re: [R-pkg-devel] Change package name

2023-06-21 Thread Spencer Graves
On 6/21/23 8:33 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:39:48 -0400 wrote: If you really need a new package name, is there an accepted way to update the old name to at least provide a message for a while as to the new name to use and perhaps have the load otherwise fail? I don't

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Change package name

2023-06-21 Thread Rolf Turner
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:39:48 -0400 wrote: > If you really need a new package name, is there an accepted way to > update the old name to at least provide a message for a while as to > the new name to use and perhaps have the load otherwise fail? I don't know about "accepted", but the following

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Change package name

2023-06-21 Thread William Becker
Dear All, Thanks very much for the positive and helpful replies here. All the best, William > On 20/06/2023 19:36 CEST Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > On 20.06.2023 18:00, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > > Hi William, > > > > On 20 June 2023 at 16:06, William Becker wrote: > > | I am the

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Change package name

2023-06-20 Thread avi.e.gross
, June 20, 2023 12:00 PM To: William Becker Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Change package name Hi William, On 20 June 2023 at 16:06, William Becker wrote: | I am the maintainer of a package which is unfortunately involved in a complicated dispute regarding its

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Change package name

2023-06-20 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 20.06.2023 18:00, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Hi William, On 20 June 2023 at 16:06, William Becker wrote: | I am the maintainer of a package which is unfortunately involved in a complicated dispute regarding its intellectual property (since the package was partly built under a contract

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Change package name

2023-06-20 Thread Tim Salabim
I second Dirk's suggestion to address this issue directly to CRAN. I had one of my packages changed once from "Reot" to "remote" (which enables calculation of empirical orthogonal teleconnections as introduced by van den Dool 2000) and had to present some convincing arguments to do so (in quite a

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Change package name

2023-06-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi William, On 20 June 2023 at 16:06, William Becker wrote: | I am the maintainer of a package which is unfortunately involved in a complicated dispute regarding its intellectual property (since the package was partly built under a contract with an organisation), but also the "branding" of

[R-pkg-devel] Change package name

2023-06-20 Thread William Becker
Dear All, I am the maintainer of a package which is unfortunately involved in a complicated dispute regarding its intellectual property (since the package was partly built under a contract with an organisation), but also the "branding" of the package, i.e. the name. The story is long and