On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 08:46:57PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> According to the RFC for an R packaging policy at
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2003-December/028424.html
> I'd like to keep the source package name 'vcd' as the upstream
> package name. On the other hand I'm quite unsure if there are
> 2 or 3 letter names. In one of my former ITPs (sp) there is a
> conflict with sp - James Clark's SGML parsing tools.
>
> Any comments are welcome.
The Policy Draft you reference is somewhat outdated and in need of a
refresher.
As for the names: On a few of my more recent ITPs for R / CRAN
packages, folks suggested to not use the 'short' names. Hence I would
suggest
r-cran-msm
r-cran-sp
r-cran-spc
r-cran-vcd
for binary _and source_ packages and you may as well stick with
r-cran-colorspace
as colorspace is so generic. I even had an 5-year package hijacked
this year because was oblivious an re-uploaded under the same
(arguably cute) four-letter name.
Dirk
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