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

[Duncan Murdoch]

I'm pretty sure CRAN doesn't care what is in the title, as long as

  - The new one follows their rules (re capitalization etc.)
  - The change doesn't follow the last package change too rapidly.

It would be best if you change the title at the same time as you are 
releasing other changes to the package.  If the title change is the only 
change in a resubmission, that wastes their time.

Duncan Murdoch

On 2025-06-05 6:12 p.m., Rolf Turner 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
>