[R-pkg-devel] Changing the title of a package.

Michael Chirico m|ch@e|ch|r|co4 @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Fri Jun 6 00:21:53 CEST 2025


Hi Rolf, the first step of course is "just do it" -- have you edited the
title, and run R CMD check --as-cran? What NOTE/WARNING/ERROR did you see?

Mike C

On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM Rolf Turner <rolfturner using posteo.net> wrote:

>
>
> Currently the title line in the DESCRIPTION file for my kanova package
> reads
>
>     Title: Pseudo Anova for K-Functions
>
> and I would like it to read
>
>     Title: Quasi Anova for K-Functions
>
> The reason I want to make this change is that I am writing, with a
> co-author, a paper on the underlying ideas, and my co-author wants the
> title of the paper to be "Quasi analysis of variance for K-Functions"
> rather than "Pseudo analysis of variance for K-Functions" (as I
> initially had it).  My co-author is of course quite right.
>
> I would like the title in the DESCRIPTION file to be consistent with the
> title of the paper.
>
> To get to the point: can I just simply change the title in the
> DESCRIPTION file, or will there be repercussions in the form of NOTEs
> WARNINGs or ERRORs that I will somehow have to deal with?  (And if so,
> how do I deal with them?)
>
> Grateful for any advice.
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf
>
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