Hi Sigbert, the CRAN Repository Policy available at
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html contains Packages should be named in a way that does not conflict (irrespective of case) with any current or past CRAN package (the Archive area can be consulted), nor any current Bioconductor package. Package maintainers give the right to use that package name to CRAN when they submit, so the CRAN team may orphan a package and allow another maintainer to take it over. HTH, Bettina On 11/1/21 7:47 AM, Sigbert Klinke wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to submit a package to CRAN. When I ran R CMD check --as-cran I > saw that the package name is used by another package. After renaming my > package I googled the new name and it turned out that an archived package > has the same name. So I renamed my package the second time. > > Question: Could I have used the name of the archived package? Especially > since we do in both packages something similar? > > Best Sigbert ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
