[R] How to publish a new package on CRAN

[Bert Gunter]

This appears to be off topic here, but, when expanded, might make a nice
post on the R-bloggers site.

Cheers,
Bert

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 6:10 AM J C Nash <profjcnash using gmail.com> wrote:

> In reading the original post, I could not help but get a feeling that the
> writers were
> going through an exercise in learning how to put a package on CRAN. Having
> organized "Navigating
> the R Package Universe" at UseR!2017, where Spencer Graves, Julia Silge
> and I pointed out the
> difficulties for users in finding appropriate tools among the thousands of
> packages, perhaps
> an effort to organize or modify EXISTING packages would be more useful.
>
> It is NOT that new packages are unwelcome per se, but that we continue to
> need organization and
> amalgamation of these new packages into collections or categories so that
> similar functionality
> can be accessed more efficiently. And as a retired academic, I know how
> much "new" is valued over
> "review and assessment" of existing material. I've found several "new"
> publications of codes I
> published nearly half a century ago in the literature from time to time.
> Maybe the posters could
> write RPlagiarizedCheck.
>
> JN
>
>
> On 2019-05-14 10:31 p.m., Abby Spurdle wrote:
> > And there's the R Manuals:
> > https://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html
> >
> > The most relevant one (for this purpose) is "Writing R Extensions".
> >
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