Open aphalo opened 6 months ago
I see a note in CRAN about the size of the R an man folders. The package has grown in size, just because of the shear number of methods and functions it defines. The astronomy-related code is the only rather independent group of functions and can be rather easily moved to a new package.
These functions are used at least by one reverse dependency 'afthd' and depending on 'photobiology' indirectly adds irrelevant dependencies to 'afthd', still these functions depend on 'lubridate'.
Another advantage would be that a separate package would be easier to find for possible users. Vignettes are already separate, so the split should be rather easy.
What would be a good name? maybe 'suncalcMeeus' as 'suncalc' already exists in CRAN and uses a different set of equations.