[R-pkg-devel] CRAN archival: Does CRAN un-archive some packages automatically?

[Henrik Bengtsson]

I'm asking here to spare the CRAN Team a direct message, but also
because the answer is of interest to others:

Consider a package PkgA that was archived on CRAN, because it fails
checks and errors that were not corrected in time.  At the moment when
package PkgA is archived, it will trigger automatic archiving of other
CRAN packages that has a hard dependency on it. Say, packages PkgB and
PkgC were archived automatically, because of their dependency on PkgA.

Question: If PkgA is at a later point revived on CRAN, will CRAN
unarchive PkgB and PkgC automatically? Or, should the maintainers of
PkgB and PkgC resubmit? If they have to resubmit, should they submit
identical versions and tarballs as before, or do they have to bump the
version?

/Henrik