Thanks, Dirk and Uwe, for your helpful replies. I have learned from this situation that there is some risk involved in depending on a package that is not available in CRAN or on Bioconductor.
Peter On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 1:18 PM Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > > > On 28.11.2022 19:36, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > > On 28 November 2022 at 12:15, Peter Carbonetto wrote: > > | I maintain the mashr R package ( > https://cran.r-project.org/package=mashr), > > | which has been on CRAN a little over 2 years. The mashr package > depends on > > | another package, flashr, which is available from an external repository > > | (via *Additional_repositories*). > > | > > | Very recently, we have found ourselves in the awkward situation that > there > > | are now two flashr packages: > > | > > | https://cran.r-project.org/package=flashr > > | > > | (mashr is listed as one of the reverse dependencies of this package, > which > > | is incorrect.) > > | > > | Does anyone have any suggestions for how to navigate this awkward > > | situation? The problem needs to be fixed by Dec 7 otherwise mashr will > be > > | taken off CRAN. On the other hand, the new "flashr" seems like a nice > > | package, and I don't see any reason why it shouldn't exist on CRAN. > > > > Yikes. My tendency would be to work with what is under your control and > have > > your 'flashr' package renamed in its 'additional repository'. Also keep > the > > existing one (for existing users), and new one (say, 'flashr2' or any > other > > name, maybe even 'flashr4mashr'), upload to the 'additional repository' > and > > then update 'mashr'. > > > > As far as CRAN is concerned, there is really only one 'flashr'. > > Indeed, and CRAN makes sure that a new package does not take a name from > CRAN nor BioC, which are what we call mainstream repositories. > In order to prevent what happened, choose a rather unique name - and > perhaps consider to submit that to CRAN, too. > > We see "flashr" and similar names are also used in other projects, so > one more point for a new name. > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > Hth, Dirk > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
