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

[Markus Jochim]

Dear Alberto,

I have had a small number of CRAN-related email exchanges ..........
made it clear that his idea of politeness and my idea of 
politeness are incompatible. The email you are quoting reminds me very 
much of these exchanges.

But I try to be pragmatic about it. It’s not the end of the world if my 
packages are not on CRAN for a couple of weeks. In the end, they were 
archived because tests were failing and they were always (re-)accepted 
into CRAN once the automatic tests passed again. No personal matters 
involved.

.................  As a package 
maintainer, I am also contributing my share, especially towards my own 
discipline, and so are you. That is why there is contact in the first 
place. I wouldn't care too much whether or not that allows either of us 
to consider the other a peer.

I don’t know why your package appears to have been archived two days 
early. But otherwise I agree with Tomas and Duncan. There is a clear 
path forward for your package. Based on my own experience, there is no 
reason to believe that it will be rejected by CRAN on personal grounds, 
once the automatic tests pass.

Best

Markus