[R] packages that were removed from the CRAN repository

[David Winsemius]

On Feb 13, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Pavel Goldstein wrote:

> Hello ,
> I have a general question:
> What does it means that  a package  was removed from the CRAN  
> repository?
> There were problems in the package?

It appears it may never have been on CRAN. There are other sources of  
packages: BioC, r-forge, individual websites.

> I want to use 'mlice' package, but the package doesn't exist in the  
> CRAN now
> and I worry about...

  The closest spelling of a former CRAN package would be:
  http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/mlica/

>
> I will be very thankful for the answer!
>
>
> Pavel
>


David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT