Bioconductor and CRAN are closely tied and it is impossible to use a package name that already exists on one of them. I would say the change suggested something like SpectreSC is appropriate and would be permitted.
Lori Shepherd - Kern Bioconductor Core Team Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Elm & Carlton Streets Buffalo, New York 14263 ________________________________ From: Bioc-devel <bioc-devel-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf of Thomas Ashhurst via Bioc-devel <bioc-devel@r-project.org> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2023 8:54 PM To: bioc-devel@r-project.org <bioc-devel@r-project.org> Subject: [Bioc-devel] Package naming Hi there, We have an R package we would like to upload to Bioconductor. The package is named Spectre, currently on Github (https://secure-web.cisco.com/1hiTPoFuWsEvN2LI48qk0VQtz2KNqPxBVNh4snEwDNJir1HB-zOnnPAQ4TEJN9EM9IlcFM7J5t51wNVCKUE7elt-6jAKO05PEy9XW4SpnmkNzAbh38Jm6DC8qSvXuY6AR2hnLlr9op4WHVwd75-GDEem7Q1nGrEbpx-Yn5cviasggY9zYftN5UaJg5AFIptL_7G_RXH672IPRvdRvsZe219AINZiWpTLaE3juMhaA8McsfoSXYTntetfDxkpIT_u1ha5tddGwR9AhrSI1ntMznp7vf8TwSng7wsjKryJWl4Vjyc0ZzlKoWr7eInZb6bzi/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FImmuneDynamics%2Fspectre). There is no other package on Bioconductor with this name, but one (not ours) was uploaded to CRAN before we managed to get ours to Bioconductor (https://secure-web.cisco.com/1jQY3ladfzNOhhCdzkgJQ6Xbal854KIyqNSRZ6FttGQE907q9WfqjzY98L7Sl8CNdf26eTHzKE08h2hPFj2GNrvItAo93T0IPud8xdpxtvNwcccRktDzGnIGXzIwkuzMkRV1N0B7RHQ3ZGyKNHSGd7FWPA6A1OrPIDggxf_wNKUaYSLocMrvrd97KXMiYZWP0UGgLDtWKrpZkbM52CK8pRw0jA5lfjpN873tumKZ6vXa4Omjwdmh19sXEyDaVw2yWkc8ioar50x4rUArNCFBJG2_KheqOrDc6sOJtFuBRYfn5NNChw XRStuL0W9PI6-ao/https%3A%2F%2Fcran.r-project.org%2Fweb%2Fpackages%2Fspectre%2Findex.html). We are revisiting this now, to find a way to put our package into Bioconductor. As I understand it, the policy indicates that we cannot use a package name that is already on CRAN, even if it is not in Bioconductor. Ideally we would like to stick with our existing package name -- our package is well known at this stage, and widely used in the cytometry and single-cell communities, so we are reluctant to change it substantially. However, we could make a small names change -- SpectreSC or something along these lines. Would that be acceptable? I am aware the policy discourages names that imply a temporal relationship (e.g. Spectre2 or SpectrePlus), but SpectreSC to me seems distinct enough. Would something like this be suitable Thanks so much for your help! Tom Thomas Ashhurst, Ph.D Senior Cytometry Scientist Sydney Cytometry Core Research Facility Honorary Research Fellow Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation School of Medical Sciences Faculty of Medicine and Health The University of Sydney Charles Perkins Centre D17 E thomas.ashhu...@sydney.edu.au<mailto:thomas.ashhu...@sydney.edu.au> M +61401050583 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://secure-web.cisco.com/1RdbnuiIqd8LhKEx2z4yJcNK-WJq3ctCJfzkPOK9qQk2PtdEJEcBzbL_N7PEx_5RJY8N2UgxKlTbQ-l3AinCig0RlLt4G-6Gf87Az8BVDSk8yjMVvmboVQ3KjvGP9eiofYUhmTa6nqUmkoxr83KRiCYX1Sfl7HNm__hSIIy1YDZKBJpAeSDCbazlTttB6mgusccuyBwxMZTwZ6-ZTab1ekfujlwQyW5xGeJw91tvl4bHbk_YSalDrmXXVypp_pRmxosu8H6iB03oejhJnDLzyi3ESnXtTMgo8RiMlaHcMSR21lkLKGuox-frkNp26nuwy/https%3A%2F%2Fstat.ethz.ch%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fbioc-devel This email message may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for the delivery of this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of this email message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail and delete this email message from your computer. Thank you. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
