If you really need a new package name, is there an accepted way to update
the old name to at least provide a message for a while as to the new name to
use and perhaps have the load otherwise fail?
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From: R-package-devel On Behalf Of
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Sent: Tuesday,
On 20.06.2023 18:00, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
Hi William,
On 20 June 2023 at 16:06, William Becker wrote:
| I am the maintainer of a package which is unfortunately involved in a complicated
dispute regarding its intellectual property (since the package was partly built under a
contract
I second Dirk's suggestion to address this issue directly to CRAN. I had
one of my packages changed once from "Reot" to "remote" (which enables
calculation of empirical orthogonal teleconnections as introduced by van
den Dool 2000) and had to present some convincing arguments to do so (in
quite a
Hi William,
On 20 June 2023 at 16:06, William Becker wrote:
| I am the maintainer of a package which is unfortunately involved in a
complicated dispute regarding its intellectual property (since the package was
partly built under a contract with an organisation), but also the "branding" of
Dear All,
I am the maintainer of a package which is unfortunately involved in a
complicated dispute regarding its intellectual property (since the package was
partly built under a contract with an organisation), but also the "branding" of
the package, i.e. the name.
The story is long and
