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 ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
