[R] Orphaned R Packages (maybe this is too inside baseball?)

[Jason Rupert]

Whoops...

I apologize for not previously stating my continuing gratitude for all the wonderful insights offered and will do my sincere due diligence to locate the answer as you suggest to the general R Help list.  Your responsiveness to a sincere concern and interest in the maintenance approach for packages is most appreciated. 

Again thank you for all your help!  It is sincerely greatly appreciated!





----- Original Message ----
From: David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
To: Jason Rupert <jasonkrupert at yahoo.com>
Cc: R-help at r-project.org
Sent: Sat, November 28, 2009 4:41:19 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Orphaned R Packages (maybe this is too inside baseball?)

A fairly obvious search strategy (again) does locate the answer but my inclination to offer is greatly diminished by your offlist response to my prior efforts.

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David

On Nov 28, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Jason Rupert wrote:

> How do the R "powers that be" handle packages that are orphaned from CRAN?
> 
> Recently, I was looking for a function either part of the base functionality or an add-on package that mimicked the "poly" functionality from Octave (http://n4.nabble.com/Re-R-function-that-duplicates-Octave-s-poly-function-td901174.html)
> 
> Based on that post a helpful R user  strongly  encouraged me to look at the "signal" package.
> cran.es.r-project.org/web/packages/signal/index.html
> 
> Unfortunately, when clicking through on that link the following is received:
> Package ‘signal’ was removed from the CRAN repository.
> Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive.
> 
> 
> It appears that the "signal" package was part of those contributed to 2.8, but was not maintained after that, i.e. is not part of 2.9 or 2.10:
> http://mira.sunsite.utk.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.8/
> 
> I'm still pretty new to the package concept in R and how those are maintained, updated, deprecated, etc., so any insight about how this and other similar packages like this are handled is very helpful.
> 
> 
> Thanks again for the great insights offered by all those R wonderful R users and maintainers and contributors out there.  It is truly great to see a community be this productive.
> 
> P.S.  For the time being, I suppose it is okay to continue to use the signal package that was contributed to the 2.8 Version until it no longer functions properly as the architecture continues to advance (which is great).
> 
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