[R-pkg-devel] Package ‘wflo’ was removed from the CRAN repository.

[Ben Bolker]

   * Automatic unarchiving *might* happen because someone on the CRAN 
team happens to read this thread, but you will improve your odds greatly 
by e-mailing cran using r-project.org with as polite a request as you can 
manage ...

  * My guess is that nothing will happen until you resubmit (FWIW the 
NOTE definitely seems like something CRAN would object to, so you should 
fix it before resubmitting ...)

   good luck,
    Ben Bolker

On 9/22/22 4:15 PM, Carsten Croonenbroeck wrote:
> Hi Lluís,
> 
> thanks for the clarification. And kudos to your detective flair. I’m serious about that, as I would never have found out about this chain of events.
> 
> Well, there are no error or warnings to fix, so I think it would be best if someone from the CRAN team could “unarchive” wflo since there is no problem there and none of the events that were set in motion were due to any of my doings. Actually, I don’t really agree to have to resubmit, and my time for doing so is very limited. Maybe in the next few weeks or so.
> 
> Best
> 
> Carsten
> 
> 
> Von: Lluís Revilla [mailto:lluis.revilla using gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. September 2022 15:33
> An: Carsten Croonenbroeck
> Cc: r-package-devel using r-project.org
> Betreff: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package ‘wflo’ was removed from the CRAN repository.
> 
> Hi Carsten,
> 
> This seems to be an unfortunate chain of events between different packages: RcppMLPACK -> emstreeR -> wflo
> 
> Package RcppMLPACK was archived on 2021-12-20 as issues were not corrected despite reminders.
> This resulted in the package emstreeR being archived on 2021-12-20 as requires archived package 'RcppMLPACK'.
> Which also resulted in your package, wflo, being archived.
> Later, emstreeR was unarchived on 2022-03-21 after a successful submission improving the dependencies (probably removing the dependency to RcppMLPACK).
> You can see the source of this info on https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.in
> 
> About the emails, usually maintainers whose package depends on a package that is about to be removed receive an email with a date by which they should fix the problems.
> But, as I am not part of the CRAN team I cannot check it.
> 
> I would recommend preparing a new submission with all the errors and warnings fixed.
> Note that I think the package will be checked as a new package.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Lluís
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 22 Sept 2022 at 13:17, Carsten Croonenbroeck <carsten.croonenbroeck using uni-rostock.de<mailto:carsten.croonenbroeck using uni-rostock.de>> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was really, really, really surprised to learn today that my package “wflo” was removed from CRAN almost a year ago!
> 
> Telling from the output at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=wflo, this is due to my package being “Archived on 2021-12-20 as requires archived package 'emstreeR'.” However, emstreeR is in no way archived (see https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=emstreeR). Clicking “check results archive”, it says that there is only a note
> 
> Result: NOTE
>      Namespace in Imports field not imported from: ‘rgdal’
>       All declared Imports should be used.
> 
> which is indeed correct, I don’t use rgdal anymore. What now, remove the rgdal import and resubmit? How come I wasn’t informed, my E-Mail is running perfectly. Very puzzling…
> 
> Best
> 
> Carsten
> 
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