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

Sat Sep 24 21:15:16 CEST 2022

Dear Lluís, dear Ben,

sorry about being close to impolite before, as you clearly have sensed ("as polite a request as you can manage"... :-)). I have cooled down a little bit by now and am currently processing the package to be resubmitted, but honestly, if this turns out to be as painful as it has been the first time, I will likely drop it half way through.

Best wishes, and thanks and sorry again

Carsten

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Von: R-package-devel [mailto:r-package-devel-bounces using r-project.org] Im Auftrag von Lluís Revilla
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. September 2022 23:22
Cc: r-package-devel using r-project.org
Betreff: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package ‘wflo’ was removed from the CRAN repository.

Hi,

I would still submit the package:
First I agree with Ben that the note is worth fixing (and easily enough you just need to remove rgdal from your Description if it is not used.) Second, and more important, because perhaps in the 9 months since the last check changes in r-devel or quality checks might currently cause the package to fail the checks.

The idea behind CRAN, and packages repositories like it (Bioconductor), is that packages in them should work together.
Sometimes this makes it easier for developers to write more complex packages but dependencies have their own cost such as this situation.
You can share your package via other methods but usually users install packages from repositories.

Cheers,

Lluís

On Thu, 22 Sept 2022 at 22:25, Ben Bolker <bbolker using gmail.com> wrote:

>    * 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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