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 you would consider adding your data to another package, there's a list of fairly recent packages on this link: https://rviews.rstudio.com/2017/11/01/r-data-packages/ But I have to be honest as well. CRAN now contains not one but two packages with ... Chuck Norris quotes. Nothing else. Just Chuck Norris quotes. Both published this year btw. https://cran.r-project.org/package=norris https://cran.r-project.org/package=roundhouse There's also the "non-trivial" package cowsay that lets animals tell you the error messages etc. https://cran.r-project.org/package=cowsay Or what do you think of the rfoaas package, that provides you F***k off as a service? https://cran.r-project.org/package=rfoaas Plenty of other examples of totally bonker packages with absolutely no use whatsoever even remotely related to something close to scientific. So that CRAN policy looks pretty meaningless to me. I'd say: go ahead. If all that garbage can be on CRAN, there's plenty of room there for a nice dataset about a pizzapoll. Cheers Joris PS: Yes, this is a frustration of mine, as I try to make my contributions worthwhile and teach my students the same. And I hate it when said students then come back at me with "but what about this package?". If a policy is not enforced, then why bother installing it in the first place? On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:20 PM Thomas Levine <_...@thomaslevine.com> wrote: > 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 to publish the dataset? For example, > is there a package for contributed datasets, akin to datasets in base? > > [1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html > [2] https://thomaslevine.com/scm/pizzapoll > [3] https://thomaslevine.com/scm/pizzapoll/uv/pizzapoll_2018.9.10.tar.gz > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > -- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling Ghent University Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent (Belgium) <https://maps.google.com/?q=Coupure+links+653,%C2%A0B-9000+Gent,%C2%A0Belgium&entry=gmail&source=g> tel: +32 (0)9 264 61 79 ----------- Biowiskundedagen 2017-2018 http://www.biowiskundedagen.ugent.be/ ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
