[R-pkg-devel] Changing R Package Maintainer

[Hadley Wickham]

Just submit your package, and you'll get an automated email to the old address.

Hadley

On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 7:14 AM Andrew Simmons <akwsimmo using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm changing my name and my email address. I've got an update I'd like to
> submit to CRAN, I've changed my name and email in my DESCRIPTION.
>
> I couldn't find any details about changing maintainers in the R manuals
> unfortunately. Someone online said to just submit the update, CRAN will
> send one email to the new address confirming the submission, and another to
> the old address confirming the new maintainer. Someone else said to email
> CRAN from the old address about the new maintainer and their address, and
> wait for a response of approval before submission. It was unclear if that
> would be CRAN-submissions using R-project.org or CRAN using R-project.org, but I'd
> guess the first.
>
> Has anyone else done this before or does anyone know the best procedure?
> Also, given that this isn't a transfer of ownership, I'm still the same
> person with a different name, would that make this process easier?
>
>
> Thank you!
>
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