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Re: Names of R packages
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: Names of R packages |
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Tue, 23 Feb 2016 10:00:24 +0100 |
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Andreas Enge <address@hidden> writes:
> when tentatively calling "guix refresh", I saw a number of packages
> called "r-r-...", for instance "r-r-oo". Should this not be simplified
> to "r-oo"? We do not have separate packaging rules for R, but in analogy
> with python and perl, it would make sense to preprend "r-" and at the
> same time drop all other occurrences of R inside the original name.
>
> What do you think?
I’d like to keep it the way it is. In CRAN there are a number of
packages with very similar names such as “graph” and “rgraph”, or “utils”
and “R.utils”. There is also a great number of R packages that happen
to start with “R” or “r”, such as “Rmarkdown” or “rtracklayer”.
In the case of “R.oo” (which we name “r-r-oo”) there is no other package
with a conflicting name, but I find it very hard to know when I should
strip off “r-” to get the desired package in other cases.
The prefix “r-” isn’t as long as “python-” or “perl-”, so to me it
doesn’t seem so bad to keep it, especially when it helps disambiguate
packages with otherwise similar names.
~~ Ricardo