[Bioc-devel] Process to rename a bioconductor package

[Adrian Altenhoff]

Dear Lori,


thanks for helping with this. We appreciate your concern about the
ambiguity of the name. In our opinion the best option would be to rename
it to 'OmaDB' to emphases both OMA and the fact that it queries a database.

We would be very glad if you could initiate the process for rename then.


Best wishes & thanks for your help again!

Adrian


On 23/04/18 13:50, Shepherd, Lori wrote:
>
> We can assist we renaming - 
>
>
> However - we would not recommend "oma"  as that is also rather short
> and ambiguous, especially considering that is the
> exact abbreviated name of the database your package accesses - 
>
>
> Could you come up with perhaps a more unambigious and meaningful name?  
>
>
> for example here are some existing rest api for databases:
>
> KEGGREST : Client-side REST access to KEGG
>
> goTools:  Functions for Gene Ontology database
>
> IMPCdata:  Retrieves data from IMPC database
> InterMineR:  R Interface with InterMine-Powered Databases
>
> BgeeDB:  Annotation and gene expression data retrieval from Bgee database
>
>
> maybe something along those lines? 
>
>
>
>
> Lori Shepherd
>
> Bioconductor Core Team
>
> Roswell Park Cancer Institute
>
> Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
>
> Elm & Carlton Streets
>
> Buffalo, New York 14263
>
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> Adrian Altenhoff <adrian.altenhoff at inf.ethz.ch>
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 19, 2018 4:37:07 PM
> *To:* bioc-devel at r-project.org
> *Subject:* [Bioc-devel] Process to rename a bioconductor package
>  
> Dear all,
>
> we would like to rename or own bioconductor package 'roma' --> 'oma' (as
> there exists another software tool with that name that could be
> misleading). So far the package is only in the development version. Is
> there a standard process how to proceed with such requests?
>
> Thanks!
> Adrian
>
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