[Bioc-devel] Package naming

[Thomas Ashhurst]

Hi there,

We have an R package we would like to upload to Bioconductor. The package is named Spectre, currently on Github (https://github.com/ImmuneDynamics/spectre). 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://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/spectre/index.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

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Sydney Cytometry Core Research Facility

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Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation
School of Medical Sciences
Faculty of Medicine and Health

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