The link to Alan's web site is on every help page (in the source section). That's where the source is supposed to be.
I have no problem with adding the source to the DESCRIPTION file, but that is not what CRAN asked me to do. On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 12:16 PM Max Turgeon <max.turg...@umanitoba.ca> wrote: > For what it's worth, I'd be inclined to interpreting CRAN's response > *very* literally, i.e. your Description field is not descriptive enough. > According to what I can see in the Github repo, you only have > > > "Datasets used in the book Categorical Data Analysis by Agresti but not > printed in the book." > > > Which is not much more than what the Title field says. One glaring > omission (IMO) from the Description field is any mention of Agresti's > website, where the data comes from. > > > In contrast, looking at the "woolridge" package, I can see from the > Description field that it contains 111 datasets (well, that's in the Title > field), it's about econometrics, and the purpose of the package is to make > it easier for students to work with these datasets. > > > Max Turgeon > Assistant Professor > Department of Statistics > Department of Computer Science > University of Manitoba > maxturgeon.ca > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* R-package-devel <r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf > of Charles Geyer <char...@stat.umn.edu> > *Sent:* June 28, 2020 11:38 AM > *To:* Neal Fultz > *Cc:* R Package Development > *Subject:* Re: [R-pkg-devel] package CatDataAnalysis > > ******************************************************** > Caution: This message was sent from outside the University of Manitoba. > ******************************************************** > > Actually the wooldridge package does not seem to satisfy any of the > specific requests CRAN asked me for. I have checked several other CRAN > packages for textbooks and they don't seem to satisfy those requirements > either. So this seems to be a new idea from CRAN. > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 11:32 AM Neal Fultz <nfu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > -- > 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 > > -- 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
