reserving a package name

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Uwe Ligges
<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:

On 10.07.2014 23:46, Adrian Du?a wrote:

Dear All,
[...]

Well, you cannot reserve a package name. Actually you can choose any legal name.

The story is different if you want to submit it to BioConductor or CRAN, then the name must be unique in the BioC + CRAN world. More details in the CRAN policies, for example.
And yes, it works on n a first come, first served basis there.

Please read CRAN policy: 
"http://cran.fhcrc.org/web/packages/policies.html".  I don't think they 
have a policy for minimum content beyond passing "R CMD check" without 
errors or significant notes and respecting the time of the CRAN 
maintainers by not submitting updates more often than every 1-2 months.  
A "package" consisting solely of the following DESCRIPTION passed "R CMD 
check" for me just now;  you should confirm that with the latest 
versions of R (and Rtools if you run Windows).  I can't speak for CRAN 
maintainers, but it looks to me like submitting a package containing 
only a DESCRIPTION file should reserve the name you want --- assuming 
it's already available.


       Hope this helps.
       Spencer


Package: tstPkg
Type: Package
Title: empty package
Version: 0.0-0
Date: 2014-07-11
Author: Adrian Duja
Maintainer: Adrian Dusa <dusa.adrian at unibuc.ro>
Description:
   reserving package name
License: GPL (>= 2)
Depends:
Suggests:

Thanks Uwe, this is just as I had expected.
Best wishes,
Adrian