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• What will appear on the website's home page?
• Who is the funder?
• Who is the maintainer? Someone must be declared as "maintainer", or the package won't build -- it is a requirement of an R package sensu stricto the someone is the "maintainer". Avoiding the role "cre" (creator = maintainer) results in this error:

Error : Invalid DESCRIPTION file

Authors@R field gives no person with maintainer role, valid email
address and non-empty name.

The role "maintainer" appears on two places:

• The website: from here, "maintainer" can be removed by manually editing the .html files author.htlm and index.html.
• The DESCRIPTION file, that \R links to the functions' index. I haven't found a way to edit this.
  maybe "maintainer" can be removed after the fact, by editing the .html file of authors.html and index.html

• DESCRIPTION: Authors are Condit, Lao and Hall (Mauro Lepore; I'm not an author not maintainer).

• LICENSE GPL-3

• Vignettes: remove.

• NEWS: Summarize what is different from the original CTFS R Package

• Try minimize Suggests and Imports

• README

  • Explain differences (keep differences to a minimum), e.g. rename split.data() as split_data().
  • Say it won't be maintained.
  • Any authorization to be made via "the director of CTFS" not via "Stuart Davies".

Other ideas

• Get a DOI with via Zenodo.
• Release with a version number that indicates the type of differences it has compared to the original CTFS R Package.