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

[Uwe Ligges]

On 03.11.2016 20:27, Joseph Stachelek wrote:
> 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 seen no activity since 2014 and is now out-of-date.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.

Right, not orphaned, as
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dams/index.html
lists a maintainer.

CRAN will contact the maintainer CCIng you.

Best,
Uwe Ligges









> -jsta
>