[Bioc-devel] question regarding change to release version of package

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Samuel E Zimmerman" <sezimmer at einstein.yu.edu>
> To: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel at r-project.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 7:19:42 AM
> Subject: [Bioc-devel] question regarding change to release version of package

> Dear Bioc-devel users,
> 
> One of the authors of our package realized that the first letter of her last
> name was not capitalized in the description file of the package. Would it be
> okay to update the release version of the package to change something small
> like this so we don't have to wait 6 months for the change to be made public?

Yes.

> Also, the citation on our landing page is incorrect because the program used to
> populate the page recognizes part of her first name as her middle name. Is
> there a way to customize the citation?
> 


Yes, create a CITATION file and add it to the package, see 
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#CITATION-files

Dan


> Thank you very much.
> 
> Sam
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