[R-pkg-devel] puzzling removal of 'dotwhisker' from CRAN

[Josiah Parry]

Well, after trying to install the package, I believe the issue is because
margins has been archived.

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/margins/index.html

You can check recursive dependencies using
`tools::package_dependencies("pkg", recursive = TRUE)` which would help you
in this case. I couldn't run it since the package is not available on CRAN,
however.


On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 9:05 AM Ben Bolker <bbolker using gmail.com> wrote:

>    The 'dotwhisker' package was archived on CRAN: from
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dotwhisker/index.html
>
>      Package ‘dotwhisker’ was removed from the CRAN repository
>      ...
>
>      Archived on 2024-04-12 as requires archived package 'prediction'.
>
>     However, I can't for the life of me see where this dependence could
> come from. Neither the DESCRIPTION file of the last-archived version on
> CRAN
> <
> https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/dotwhisker/dotwhisker_0.8.1.tar.gz>,
>
> nor the version on github <https://github.com/fsolt/dotwhisker>, seem to
> show any signs of importing prediction ... ?? I suppose there's a
> possibility of a recursive dependence, but in that case why wouldn't the
> direct dependence be reported?
>
> Depends: R (>= 3.2.0), ggplot2 (>= 2.2.1),
> Imports: grid, gtable, gridExtra, stats, parameters, performance,
>          patchwork, margins, dplyr, stringr, ggstance, rlang, purrr
> Suggests: ordinal, tibble, knitr, rmarkdown, broom
>
>    What am I missing?
>
>    (I'm concerned because I have packages that Suggest: dotwhisker, and
> the absence of the package from repos is breaking GitHub Actions checks
> ...)
>
>
>    (This is cross-posted from an issue on the dotwhisker GH repository:
> https://github.com/fsolt/dotwhisker/issues/115)
>
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