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

[Joseph Stachelek]

On Thu, 2016-11-03 at 18:38 +0100, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 
> On 03.11.2016 18:20, Joseph Stachelek 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 seen no activity since 2014 and is now out-of-date.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
> 
> Hard to say without knowing which package you are taking about.
> 
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
I am interested in the `dams` package. From Gabor's link it appears
that I was not mistaken and it has not been orphaned.

-jsta