[R-pkg-devel] package CatDataAnalysis

I'm not sure exactly what cran is asking for, but the wooldridge
package is a good example of a text book data set package, so maybe
you can use the same format they did.

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/wooldridge/index.html

Best,

Neal

On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 9:08 AM Charles Geyer <charlie at stat.umn.edu>
wrote:

I have a package that has the datasets for Categorical Data Analysis by
Agresti that do not appear in the book.  The whole package is a github

repo

https://github.com/cjgeyer/CatDataAnalysis.  All of the data were
translated mechanically using the R script foo.R included in the repo

(but

not in the package) from Agresti's web site
http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~aa/cda/data.html.

This package seems to be a useful service to students and teachers.  The
data
are much simpler to use with this package than trying to get the data

from

Agresti's web page (foo.R has 277 lines of code).

When I submitted the package to CRAN, I got the following response.

The Description field of the DESCRIPTION file is intended to be a (one
paragraph) description of what the package does and why it may be
useful. Please elaborate. Tell the users what the datasets are about

and

what they contain so they can use them even when they haven't read your
book.

Please fix and resubmit, and document what was changed in the

submission

comments.

In an alternate universe without copyright law this seems a reasonable
request.  In this universe it seems to be asking for trouble.  I know

about

fair use, but I am not a lawyer and do not want to walk the borderline
between fair use and copyright violation.

The package as it is seems OK because it comes from the author's public

web

site and these data were never in the book.

Please note that I made Alan Agresti (with his acquiescence) the author

of

the package because it is his book and his data, but I (or rather foo.R)
did all the work.

I replied to cran.r-project.org, but that was apparently sent to

/dev/null.

This book is IMHO the authoritative textbook on the subject.  Amazon

sales

rank agrees.  The book is used for many courses.  So this package would

be

very helpful as is to many students and teachers.

So what to do?  Is there any way to get this package on CRAN?

--
Charles Geyer
Professor, School of Statistics
Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
University of Minnesota
charlie at stat.umn.edu

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