[R-pkg-devel] Package name convention: archived package

[Grün, Bettina]

Hi Sigbert,

the CRAN Repository Policy available at

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html

contains

Packages should be named in a way that does not conflict (irrespective of 
case) with any current or past CRAN package (the Archive area can be 
consulted), nor any current Bioconductor package. Package maintainers give 
the right to use that package name to CRAN when they submit, so the CRAN 
team may orphan a package and allow another maintainer to take it over.

HTH,
Bettina

On 11/1/21 7:47 AM, Sigbert Klinke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to submit a package to CRAN. When I ran R CMD check --as-cran I 
> saw that the package name is used by another package. After renaming my 
> package I googled the new name and it turned out that an archived package 
> has the same name. So I renamed my package the second time.
> 
> Question: Could I have used the name of the archived package? Especially 
> since we do in both packages something similar?
> 
> Best Sigbert