On 13.06.2017 15:40, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 13/06/2017 7:29 AM, Michael Dewey wrote:
Dear David
It is your package and you can choose the name you prefer. If you feel
uncomfortable with the current one then change it. I do not think anyone
else's opinion is relevant unless a package author
On 13/06/2017 7:29 AM, Michael Dewey wrote:
Dear David
It is your package and you can choose the name you prefer. If you feel
uncomfortable with the current one then change it. I do not think anyone
else's opinion is relevant unless a package author picks a name that all
right thinking people wo
Apropos of nothing, I just came across this line at
https://github.com/trestletech/plumber:
plumber was originally released as the rapier package and has since been
renamed (7/13/2015)
Heh.
David
On 13 June 2017 at 13:29, Michael Dewey wrote:
> Dear David
>
> It is your package and you can ch
Dear David
It is your package and you can choose the name you prefer. If you feel
uncomfortable with the current one then change it. I do not think anyone
else's opinion is relevant unless a package author picks a name that all
right thinking people would find offensive.
On 11/06/2017 14:51,
, however, ask the CRAN maintainers for a dispensation,
> explaining the reason for the desired change.
> >
> > Best,
> > John
> >
> > -
> > John Fox, Professor
> > McMaster University
> > Hamilton, Ontario
> > Canada L8S 4M4
> > web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/
gt;
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> Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Changing a package's name
>
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
From: R-package-devel [r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org] on behalf of
David Hugh-Jones [davidhughjo...@gmail.com]
Sent: June 11, 2017 9:51 AM
To: R package devel
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Changing a package
Hello all,
A short while ago I released the "huxtable" package for writing HTML and
LaTeX tables:
https://www.github.com/hughjonesd/huxtable
The name seemed cute to me, but I later found out that to Americans it has
special associations. The Huxtables were the family in the Cosby show. That
would
