Thanks Martin! Best,
Julie > On Jul 1, 2016, at 10:28 PM, Martin Morgan <martin.mor...@roswellpark.org> > wrote: > >> On 07/01/2016 10:45 AM, Zhu, Lihua (Julie) wrote: >> Martin, >> >> The lab, who developed the GUIDE-seq protocol, just published a python >> tool called guideseq in Nature Biotechnology, which is too similar to >> our Bioconductor package name GUIDEseq. >> >> I am wondering if there is an easy way to change the package name, or >> perhaps give it an alias to point to the same package. Thanks! > > Changing package names is strongly discouraged, since the internet tends to > have a strong memory. However, the recommended approach is like deprecating a > function, as described at > > http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/deprecation/ > > In the current devel, we would clone your current code base to XXX, and add > > .onLoad <- function(...) { > warning("Package 'GUIDEseq' is deprecated, use package 'XXX'") > } > > in the next devel cycle, you'd change that to > > .onLoad <- function(...) { > stop("Package 'GUIDEseq' is defunct, use package 'XXX'") > } > > and remove all code other code / documentation from GUIDEseq. In the devel > cycle after that, we'd remove GUIDEseq from the manifest. > > Your users would see the deprecation warning after the next release > (October?) and would have to switch by the release after that (March?). > > Martin > >> >> Best regards, >> >> Julie > > > This email message may contain legally privileged and/or confidential > information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or > agent responsible for the delivery of this message to the intended > recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, > distribution, or use of this email message is prohibited. If you have > received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by > e-mail and delete this email message from your computer. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
