[Rd] Fixing ambiguous corrections and reattempting to submit package to R

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 01/03/2015 10:09 PM, Luck Buttered wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I recently submitted a package to R using devtools:release().
> 
> I received no errors, warnings, or notes in R CMD check.
> 
> However, I received two notes in devtools::release():
> 
> 1) checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
> 2) checking package dependencies ... NOTE
>    No repository set, so cyclic dependency check skipped
> 
> After I submitted the package, I was told to fix two things, of which I am
> unsure:
> 
> 1) The Title field should be in title case, current version then in title case
> 2) checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
> 
> For the first issue, I changed my title field in the DESCRIPTION file to be
> title case, as it had been all lower-case. However, I do not know if that
> is a sufficient change, given their response wording "The Title field
> should be in title case, current version then in title case". If all I need
> to do is change my title field to title case, I would imagine their
> response would simply be "The Title field should be in title case".

Perhaps they made an error editing.  It happens.

> 
> When I did research on the second issue (from websites like these):
> 1)
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23829978/checking-cran-incoming-feasibility-note-maintainer
> 2) http://grokbase.com/t/r/r-help/129ncmtvga/r-new-submission-to-cran-note
> 
> The first website tells me to ignore the note, with a reference to CRAN
> member Uwe Ligges, while the second website tells me to send an e-mail to
> cran at r-project.org, and state that I agree to the CRAN repository
> policies.
> 
> So, would it be correct (of good etiquette) for me to simply change my
> title field in the DESCRIPTION field to title case, rerun
> devtools::release(), and then send an e-mail to cran at r-project.org, and
> state that I agree to the CRAN repository policies (which I did not do the
> first time I submitted)?

The people at CRAN prefer that you use their web page for submissions.
(The URL is listed in their policy document.)  It is less work for them,
and believe me, they do a lot of work.
> 
> Thank you for any advice.
> 
> 
> Below is the format of my DESCRIPTION file:
> 
> 
> Package: packageName
> 
> Version: 0.1.0
> 
> Title: Title in Title Case that does not end in Period
> 
> Description: Statement about methods available.
> 
> Author: Author One, Author Two
> 
> Maintainer: Author One <authorOne at school.edu>

Those don't look like real names.  Since you are claiming copyright on
the work you're submitting, you should include real names, and a real
email address in the Maintainer field to respond to queries about it.
See the CRAN policy document on the CRAN website.

Duncan Murdoch