[Bioc-devel] Is there a way to change the name of R package that is already published on bioconductor?

[Hervé Pagès]

Hi Marcin,

It's technically possible to change the name. In order to try to keep
this the less disruptive, we would only do this in devel and we would
need to create a new package there by cloning the current package and
changing its name. Then we would add a deprecation/redirection message
in the old package. If the renaming only involves changing case, it
might cause problems on Windows.

As you can see it's a quite bumpy road. Is it really worth all the
trouble?

Cheers,
H.

On 11/16/2015 08:47 AM, Marcin Kosiński wrote:
> I have published `RTCGA.rnaseq` R package that provides datasets from TCGA
> project containig RNA sequencing (gene's expressions). I am wondering if
> there is a way to change this package name to be more proper like
> `RTCGA.RNAseq` and if that's possible, how should I do that and to whom
> should I write?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marcin
>
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