[R-pkg-devel] uuid 1.1-0 binary not available for Windows?

[Kevin Ushey]

Hi,

It looks like binaries for uuid 1.1-0 are not available for R 4.1 on
Windows. However, available.packages() reports that it is available:

> options(repos = c(CRAN = "https://cran.r-project.org"))
> db <- available.packages(type = "binary")
> str(as.list(db["uuid", ]))
List of 17
 $ Package              : chr "uuid"
 $ Version              : chr "1.1-0"
 $ Priority             : chr NA
 $ Depends              : chr "R (>= 2.9.0)"
 $ Imports              : chr NA
 $ LinkingTo            : chr NA
 $ Suggests             : chr NA
 $ Enhances             : chr NA
 $ License              : chr "MIT + file LICENSE"
 $ License_is_FOSS      : chr NA
 $ License_restricts_use: chr NA
 $ OS_type              : chr NA
 $ Archs                : chr "i386, x64"
 $ MD5sum               : chr NA
 $ NeedsCompilation     : chr NA
 $ File                 : chr NA
 $ Repository           : chr
"https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.1"
> install.packages("uuid", type = "both")

And so this implies that attempts to install 'uuid' will by default
fail, as type = "both" will attempt to select the non-existent binary:

> install.packages("uuid", type = "both")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/kevin/r/win-library/4.1’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/uuid_1.1-0.zip'
Warning in install.packages :
  cannot open URL
'https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/uuid_1.1-0.zip':
HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
  cannot open URL
'https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/uuid_1.1-0.zip'
Warning in install.packages :
  download of package ‘uuid’ failed

Are there plans to publish a binary version of this version of uuid
for Windows, or does the PACKAGES database need to be updated on CRAN?

For what it's worth, https://cran.r-project.org/package=uuid does
indicate that the Windows binary for r-release is not available, but
the link points to a non-existent ReadMe file.

Thanks,
Kevin