Pacakge norm (was Re: [Rd] orphaning CRAN packages)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The known problems are in the file

http://www.r-project.org/nocvs/R.check/r-devel/norm-00check.txt

No showstoppers, so given the saga of Ted's connectivity, I would suggest 
waiting for the release on April 18.

There are no declared dependencies, nor did I find any searching the 
code.

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> (Ted Harding) wrote:
>> On 09-Apr-05 Uwe Ligges wrote:
>> 
>>> Friedrich.Leisch at tuwien.ac.at wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Dear R Developers,
>>>> 
>>>> the following CRAN packages do not cleanly pass R CMD check
>>>> for quite some time now and did not have any updates since
>>>> the time given. Several attempts by the CRAN admins to contact
>>>> the package maintainers had no success.
>>>> 
>>>> norm, 1.0-9, 2002-05-07, WARN
>> 
>> 
>> It would be serious if 'norm' were to lapse, since it is
>> part of the 'norm+cat+mix+pan' family, and people using any
>> of these are likely to have occasion to use the others.
>> 
>> I'd offer to try to clean up 'norm' myself if only I were
>> up-to-date on R itself (I'm waiting for 2.1.0 to come out,
>> which I understand is scheduled to happen soon, yes?).
>
> Ted, that's great!
>
> R-2.1.0 is scheduled to be released on April 18 (see 
> http://developer.r-project.org/).
>
> It would be even better if you could try out the recent beta release of 
> R-2.1.0 right now in order to spot some possible bugs before release.
>
> So it is the perfect occasion to clean up "norm" on R-2.1.0 beta this 
> weekend. ;-)
>
> Best,
> Uwe
>
>
>> Best wishes,
>> Ted.
>> 
>> 
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