[R-pkg-devel] Package bioOED has been removed from CRAN just for personal reasons

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 01/11/2023 8:35 a.m., Tomas Kalibera wrote:
> 
> On 11/1/23 12:15, Alberto Garre wrote:
>> Dear community,
>>
>> I feel dismay for having to write this email, but the issue must be brought
>> up. On the 20th of October, I received an email from CRAN warning me of an
>> issue with one of the packages I maintain (bioOED). The package depended on
>> MEIGOR, a package that was no longer available in Bioconductor. I was given
>> until 2023-11-03 to fix the issue.
>>
>> I contacted the MEIGOR maintainers and they told me they were migrating to
>> CRAN. Yesterday, they contacted me again, telling me they needed more time
>> for the migration. Hence, I responded to the email I received from CRAN,
>> asking for an extension of the previous deadline (2023-11-03).
>>
>> To my surprise, it is not just that the extension was not granted, but the
>> package has been removed from CRAN today (2023-11-01). Two days before the
>> deadline (2023-11-03): https://cran.r-project.org/package=bioOED
>>
>> Then, I checked my inbox and I saw an email from one of the CRAN
>> maintainers, showing that the package was removed because he had felt
>> offended by my email. I copy-paste the email below.
> 
> I don't think this is true. The reason is that your package depends on
> an unavailable package, so cannot be installed. See
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bioOED/index.html where the
> reason is publicly stated.
> 
> If I were you I'd simply wait once MEIGOR is on CRAN and then publish
> the archived package again.

I agree with that interpretation.  A possibly faster alternative would 
be to remove the dependence on MEIGOR, and resubmit once that is done 
and the package is working again.

Duncan Murdoch