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

Thu Apr 18 15:35:32 CEST 2024

    Yes, but ffbase was archived a long time ago (2022-04-04) and CRAN 
has apparently just caught up to checking.  What's a little frustrating 
(to me) is that the dependence of prediction on ffbase is *very* soft 
("enhances") ...

On 2024-04-18 9:28 a.m., Thierry Onkelinx wrote:
> The cascade is even longer. prediction got archived because ffbase was 
> no longer available. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ffbase/ 
> <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 
> <mailto: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 because margins has been archived.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>
>      > <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>
>      > <mailto: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>
>      >   
>       <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> <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>
>      >     <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>
>      >     <https://github.com/fsolt/dotwhisker/issues/115
>     <https://github.com/fsolt/dotwhisker/issues/115>>)
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