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

[Ben Bolker]

   Thank you! (I know about package_dependencies() but ran into 
precisely the same problem and didn't want to re-implement it ...)

On 2024-04-18 9:11 a.m., Josiah Parry wrote:
> 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 because margins has been archived.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 
> <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 
> <mailto:bbolker using gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         The 'dotwhisker' package was archived on CRAN: from
>     https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dotwhisker/index.html
>     <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 <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
>     <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
>     <https://github.com/fsolt/dotwhisker/issues/115>)
> 
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