[R-pkg-devel] Change package name
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:39:48 -0400
<avi.e.gross at gmail.com> wrote:
If you really need a new package name, is there an accepted way to update the old name to at least provide a message for a while as to the new name to use and perhaps have the load otherwise fail?
I don't know about "accepted", but the following paradigm seems to me to be sensible and reasonably efficacious: * you have a package "foo" the name of which you wish to change to "bar" * create a new package "bar" which is the same as "foo" except for its name * now replace foo with a skeleton package which has only the file First.R in its R directory * the file First.R should be something like:
.onAttach <- function(lib, pkg) {
ver <- read.dcf(file.path(lib, pkg, "DESCRIPTION"), "Version")
packageStartupMessage(paste(pkg, ver))
msg <- paste("\n This package, \"foo\" is now",
" deprecated. Users",
"\n should install and use its",
" successor \"bar\".\n")
packageStartupMessage(msg) }
* submit both "bar" and "foo" to CRAN cheers, Rolf Turner
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