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Name clash with package "rt" on CRAN #67

Closed jemus42 closed 4 years ago

jemus42 commented 4 years ago

I was wondering why rt was not available in my $PATH seemingly at random, even though I could see there was a package named rt in my library, but without a bin directory.

Long story short: My regular updater script called update.packages() which saw the package named rt and installed the "newer" version from CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rt/index.html

This overwrote this rt, and I had to reinstall it from GitHub.

I'm not sure what to do about this, but I think there should at least be a note ("caveats"?) in the README about this possible clash and to advise against using update.packages() in this case – and of course, users of the CRAN/rt package would find themselves in a particularly annoying spot, I presume.

surmann commented 4 years ago

Obviously, we have to rename rt. Any suggestions? What about rtcl?

jakob-r commented 4 years ago

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surmann commented 4 years ago

A clear vote for rtcl? What do you think, @jakob-r ?

If it is ok, I could make a PR to rename the package.

surmann commented 4 years ago

See #69.

surmann commented 4 years ago

Done

surmann commented 4 years ago

I currently rename all bin files.

surmann commented 4 years ago

Finished.