The package name should match the GitHub
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An easy way to check whether your name is already in use is to check that the
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In addition, avoid package names that:
- Are easily confused with existing package names.
- Imply a temporal (e.g.
ExistingPackage2) or qualitative
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- Reference well known people, characters, brands, places or icons.
Also, to avoid unwanted meanings in foreign languages, name checkers such as
wordsafety might be used on the proposed package name.
Please consider the name of your package carefully. Bioconductor will discourage
renaming your package after acceptance. The process for renaming a package is to
deprecate the old named package and to re-submit the newly named package to the
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