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I will be taking over the active development and maintaining of an R package on CRAN (of course with approval of the current maintainer). What are the necessary steps to make this happen / Should we proceed as follows?: (I assume only the current maintainer has the right to submit an updated version of the package, right?)
Will that turn me into the active maintainer of the package?
edit: To clarify, I currently not an author listed in the package.
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To manually submit your package to CRAN, you create a package bundle (with devtools::build() ) then upload it to https://cran.r-project.org/submit.html, along with some comments which describe the process you followed.
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CRAN, The Comprehensive R Archive Network, is the primary package repository in the R community. CRAN is a network of ftp and web servers around the world that store identical, up-to-date, versions of code and documentation for R.
I just changed maintainer address, and followed procedure answered by @Benjamin. I was asked simply to submit first with new address in DESCRIPTION file and then afterwards admin contacted me on previous listed maintainer email and asked me to confirm the transfer.
So the process is
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