[R-pkg-devel] Cross-references and dependencies

2025-06-05 Thread Lluís Revilla
Dear package developers, I was reading section 2.5 Cross-references of Writing R Extensions and I found the following sentence. The last sentence of the section [1] is: > Packages referred to by these ‘other forms’ should be declared in the DESCRIPTION file, in the ‘Depends’, ‘Imports’, ‘Suggest

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Changing the title of a package.

2025-06-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
I'm pretty sure CRAN doesn't care what is in the title, as long as - The new one follows their rules (re capitalization etc.) - The change doesn't follow the last package change too rapidly. It would be best if you change the title at the same time as you are releasing other changes to the pa

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Changing the title of a package.

2025-06-05 Thread Rolf Turner
On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 18:02:30 -0500 Spencer Graves wrote: > I suggest you copy the package, give one the new name, and submit it. > After it has been accepted and is on CRAN, replace the other with a > something that says, "This package has been replaced by ___." > > > FYI, I did something

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Changing the title of a package.

2025-06-05 Thread Spencer Graves
I suggest you copy the package, give one the new name, and submit it. After it has been accepted and is on CRAN, replace the other with a something that says, "This package has been replaced by ___." FYI, I did something like that. Prior to 2010 Sundar Dorai-Raj and I created a package ca

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Changing the title of a package.

2025-06-05 Thread Michael Chirico
Hi Rolf, the first step of course is "just do it" -- have you edited the title, and run R CMD check --as-cran? What NOTE/WARNING/ERROR did you see? Mike C On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM Rolf Turner wrote: > > > Currently the title line in the DESCRIPTION file for my kanova package > reads > >

[R-pkg-devel] Changing the title of a package.

2025-06-05 Thread Rolf Turner
Currently the title line in the DESCRIPTION file for my kanova package reads Title: Pseudo Anova for K-Functions and I would like it to read Title: Quasi Anova for K-Functions The reason I want to make this change is that I am writing, with a co-author, a paper on the underlying idea