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

[Spencer Graves]

I suggest you copy the package, give one the new name, and submit it. 
After it has been accepted and is on CRAN, replace the other with a 
something that says, "This package has been replaced by _______."


FYI, I did something like that. Prior to 2010 Sundar Dorai-Raj and I 
created a package called "RSiteSearch". I asked this group for 
suggestions for a better name. Someone suggested "sos". I do not 
remember exactly how I did it, but it was roughly like what I just 
described.


It worked ;-)


Hope this helps. sg


On 6/5/25 17:21, Michael Chirico wrote:
> 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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