[R-pkg-devel] Advice on resubmitting when no response from CRAN

[David B. Dahl]

Hi colleagues.  I am hoping to get some advice from you on how to get
a package "unstuck" at CRAN without antagonizing the busy CRAN
maintainers.

I submitted to CRAN an update to one of my packages on August 5.  The
submission passed the automatic tests on Debian, but not Windows.  The
automated response said, "If you are fairly certain the rejection is a
false positive, please reply-all to this message and explain."  I
replied-all and noted that the failure should be resolved by please
installing software as described in the SystemRequirements field and
the referenced INSTALL file.  After three weeks of not hearing back, I
sent a polite nudge (again via reply-all) on August 26 and suggested
an alternative if my original solution was not feasible.  I still have
not heard back and notice that now my package source is no longer on
https://cran.r-project.org/incoming/archive/.

How would you recommend that I proceed in a professional fashion?  Thanks!

-- David B. Dahl