[R-pkg-devel] puzzling removal of 'dotwhisker' from CRAN
Uwe Ligges
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Thu Apr 18 15:41:18 CEST 2024
On 18.04.2024 15:35, Ben Bolker wrote:
> 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") ...
No, but CRAN has still not received an update and asked for this each
month this year, so in Jan, Feb, and March without a response, so we
assume prediction is unmaintained. Also, this was escalated to reverse
depends.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
>
> 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 because margins has been archived.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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