[R-pkg-devel] Orphaned Package listing trouble?

Gábor Csárdi csardi.gabor at gmail.com
Thu Nov 3 18:39:32 CET 2016


For the orphaned package list, search for "Orphaned" in
https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.in

Gabor

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Joseph Stachelek <stachel2 at msu.edu> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am interested in updating a CRAN package which has the primary
> purpose of serving a particular government database. This package has
> seen no activity since 2014 and is now out-of-date. I have contacted
> the maintainer email (waited several weeks) to offer to update the
> package but received no response.
>
> What should I do?
>
> I assume that I cannot simply fix the package, change the maintainer
> email, and submit to CRAN because I don't think the package has not
> been officially orphaned. The official instructions say this:
>
>> Everybody is more than welcome to take over as maintainer of an
> orphaned package. Simply download the package sources, make changes if
> necessary (respecting original author and license!) and resubmit the
> package to CRAN with your name as maintainer in the DESCRIPTION file of
> the package.
>
> The reason I am not sure if it has been orphaned is that I am having
> trouble viewing the orphaned package listing. The following page is
> blank for me (shows no package listings):
> https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Orphaned
>
> -jsta
>
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