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Bioconductor Guidelines for Mentors and Mentees

12 Removing a package from CRAN

Simply put, the name of a package must be unique across the CRAN and Bioconductor repositories.

From the CRAN repository policy:

Packages should be named in a way that does not conflict (irrespective of case) with any current or past CRAN package (the Archive area can be consulted), nor any current Bioconductor package.

And the Bioconductor repository policy:

A package name should be descriptive and should not already exist as a current package (case-insensitive) in Bioconductor nor CRAN.

As such, in the event where the maintainer of package available on the CRAN repository wishes to move it to the Bioconductor repository, said maintainer will need to first request the archival of the package on the CRAN repository before submitting the package for review and inclusion in the Bioconductor repository.

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Describe the process of archival on CRAN (e.g., emails, actions) and any impact on the Bioconductor package review.