[R-pkg-devel] What to do when a package is archived from CRAN

[Simon Urbanek]

Tatsuya,

What you do is contact CRAN. I don't think anyone here can answer your question, only CRAN can, so ask there.

Generally, packages with sufficiently many Rust dependencies have to be handled manually as they break the size limit, so auto-rejections are normal. Archival is unusual, but it may have fallen through the cracks - but the way to find out is to ask.

One related issue with respect to CRAN policies that I don't see a good solution for is that inst/AUTHORS is patently unhelpful, because most of them say "foo (version ..): foo authors" with no contact, or real names or any links. That seems to be a problem stemming from the Rust community as there doesn't seem to be any accountability with respect to ownership and attribution. I don't know if it's because it's assumed that GitHub history is the canonical source with the provenance, but that gets lost when pulled into the package.

Cheers,
Simon

PS: Your README says "(Rust 1.65 or later)", but the version condition is missing from SystemRequirements.


> On Aug 26, 2023, at 2:46 PM, SHIMA Tatsuya <ts1s1andn using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that my submitted package `prqlr` 0.5.0 was archived from CRAN on 2023-08-19.
> <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=prqlr>
> 
> I submitted prqlr 0.5.0 on 2023-08-13. I believe I have since only received word from CRAN that it passed the automated release process. <https://github.com/eitsupi/prqlr/pull/161>
> So I was very surprised to find out after I returned from my trip that this was archived.
> 
> The CRAN page says "Archived on 2023-08-19 for policy violation. " but I don't know what exactly was the problem.
> I have no idea what more to fix as I believe I have solved all the problems when I submitted 0.5.0.
> 
> Is there any way to know what exactly was the problem?
> (I thought I sent an e-mail to CRAN 5 days ago but have not yet received an answer, so I decided to ask my question on this mailing list, thinking that there is a possibility that there will be no answer to my e-mail, although I may have to wait a few weeks for an answer. My apologies if this idea is incorrect.)
> 
> Best,
> Tatsuya
> 
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