Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN Non-Triviality Requirement

2018-09-26 Thread Clifford Anderson-Bergman
An alternative might be to find an R package for which the dataset was relevant to and ask the author if they would be willing to include it in their package. Personally, I’ve considered soliciting the users of my package to share their data in my package because every other package for this typ

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN Non-Triviality Requirement

2018-09-26 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:04 PM, Joris Meys wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > I would argue that one dataset - even a new one - could be added to another > package. The pizzapoll doesn't look like a scientific breakthrough, but it > might be a nice dataset for teaching and/or testing new models. So I see

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN Non-Triviality Requirement

2018-09-26 Thread Joris Meys
Hi Thomas, I would argue that one dataset - even a new one - could be added to another package. The pizzapoll doesn't look like a scientific breakthrough, but it might be a nice dataset for teaching and/or testing new models. So I see value in making it available on CRAN one way or another. If yo

[R-pkg-devel] CRAN Non-Triviality Requirement

2018-09-26 Thread Thomas Levine
I want to publish a single dataset, and I am concerned about part of the CRAN policies. The preamble of the policies [1] says, > A package's contribution has to be non-trivial The single dataset [2, 3] is recent and not very widely known. Is it considered trivial? If so, what would be a good way