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

[Thierry Onkelinx]

The cascade is even longer. prediction got archived because ffbase was no
longer available. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ffbase/

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Op do 18 apr 2024 om 15:25 schreef Ben Bolker <bbolker using gmail.com>:

>    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 because margins has been archived.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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