diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md index 13991f9e..2aaf85de 100644 --- a/cran-comments.md +++ b/cran-comments.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Description ----------------------------------------------- -This submission revival of a package archived from April of 2021. I (Mason Garrison) am taking over as the maintainer from Will Beasley. As part of that process, I am getting reviving this package. My first goal is getting this package pack on CRAN as a single package, so that folks in the field of behavior genetics can have access to the tools and data. After the package is revived, I fully plan to split up the packages into a data package. I have already begun that process here, but it will take some time to do that. +This submission revival of a package archived from April of 2021. I (Mason Garrison) am taking over as the maintainer from Will Beasley. As part of that process, I am reviving this package. My first goal is getting this united package back on CRAN, so that folks in the field of behavior genetics can have access to the tools and data. After the package is revived, I fully plan to split up the packages into a data package. I have already begun that process here, but it will take some time to do that as I need to dive deeper into the older source code. Below are Will's initial notes about the current package size. Regarding package size ("the installed size is 6.0Mb"): A few years ago Kurt asked, "Would it be possible to put some of the data sets into a separate package which changes less frequently than code and docs?" I'll gladly defer to your judgment and recommendations, but I see two reasons to retain a united package. First, our primary target audience is Behavior Genetics researchers, who typically are much less familiar with R than other fields. There have been at least 3 BG researchers who have requested SAS data files, because they weren't even comfortable reading vanilla CSV files into SAS. I'd like to avoid another step/package for them to consider, even if the dataset-only package was a dependency. Second, the datasets change every few years because the NLSY's three current cohorts are surveyed every two years. This will be only the [third CRAN submission since Dec 2013](https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/Archive/NlsyLinks/), and most of those changes [were to stay current updated CRAN policies](https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/NlsyLinks/NEWS). The dataset-package would have needed to change too, and therefore increase the demands on CRAN maintainers (because both packages might required updates).