[R-pkg-devel] Warning from orphaned package on check page

[Liam J. Revell]

Dear colleagues.

I'm trying to update a package on CRAN containing a dependency 
(specifically, on the popular graphing package 'plotrix') that has been 
orphaned because the maintainer is deceased.

'plotrix' is imported by well over 100 other CRAN packages, so I hope it 
is not removed from CRAN. On the other hand, I don't want to certify 
that 'I have fixed all problems shown on the package check page' if this 
is not, in fact, the case.

Can anyone comment on how one might proceed in this situation?

Thank you. -- Liam

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Liam J. Revell
Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston
Web: http://faculty.umb.edu/liam.revell/
Book: Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in R (Princeton University Press, 
2022)