14 Package publishing rules
14.1 Avoid name collisions
While it is technically possible to host a fork or completely different package with the same name in a universe, we strongly recommend your not doing it.
- An user might mistakenly install the
examplepackage from CRAN rather than the version from an universe. R will automatically overwrite one package with the other when runninginstall.packages()orupdate.packages(). - It becomes even trickier when other packages import the package.
Therefore, when two packages have the same name, and one of them is on CRAN, R-universe: - treats the one that is on CRAN as the official version. - warns users against the duplication on the page of the other package.
14.2 Reserved names
The following names should be avoided as package name because https://username.r-universe.dev/{pkg}/ has special meaning:
- api
- apis
- articles
- badges
- bin
- builds
- citation
- contributors
- datasets
- docs
- favicon.ico
- feed.xml
- index.xml
- manual
- packages
- readme
- robots.txt
- sitemap_index.xml
- sitemap.xml
- src
- stats
14.3 Code of Conduct
Maintainers of universes are solely responsible for their projects.
The R-universe project itself is governed by the rOpenSci code of conduct.