[RsR] New maintainer? Package 'robust' (original S+ "Library 'robust') orphaned on CRAN

[Valentin Todorov]

Dear Martin,

The most interesting functionality in 'robust', that I see, is the
possibility to compare  visually two or more different models.
And maybe some people are used to and prefer the interface of 'robust'. Or
some data sets.

I rebuilt it and can take over the maintenance for the next "couple of
years" as you said.

And no, rrcovNA is not archived, see
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rrcovNA/index.html

Best regards,
Valentin


On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 at 17:20, Martin Maechler <maechler using stat.math.ethz.ch>
wrote:

> >>>>> Valentin Todorov
> >>>>>     on Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:31:21 +0100 writes:
>
>     > Dear Martin,
>     > I was thinking of this since Kjell
>     > abandoned the package, but I was not sure to what extent would this
> be
>     > necessary - most of the functionality of 'robust' we already moved to
>     > 'robustbase' and/or 'rrcov', therefore it suggests/imports these
> packages.
>     > Let us see in the next days what still remains there and is valuable
> and
>     > decide what to do.
>
>     > Best regards,
>     > Valentin
>
> Thank you, Valentin.
>
> I had similar thoughts a long time ago, I think prompted
> indepedently by  Kjell  and Doug Martin ...
>
> I vaguely remember I found that there have been things in
> 'Robust' which looked valuable and notably good to have for
> comparison reasons,
> *but* that were a lot work to "tear out" of the robust package
> (including the necessary underlying Fortran code, but *not*
>  taking all the Fortran code that would *not* be needed ...).
>
> In the mean time the CRAN team has archived the package
> 'robust', and  I must adapt the 'Robustness' CRAN task view
> considerably (and remove the 'Suggests: robust'  from my
> robustbase package.
>
> I'd be grateful for help and suggestions in still trying
> 'salvage' valuable resources out of 'robust'.
>
> BTW:  Why has  rrcovNA  be archived?
>
> Best,
> Martin
>
>
>     > On Fri, 28 Feb 2020, 11:03 am Martin Maechler, <
> maechler using stat.math.ethz.ch>
>     > wrote:
>
>     >> Dear R Robustniks,
>     >>
>     >> as I am the maintainer of package 'robustbase' and am submitting
>     >> a new version of it to CRAN,
>     >> it came to my knowledge that package 'robust' (= the original
>     >> S-plus "Library 'robust', then released to CRAN, maintained by
>     >> Kjell Konis for time) has been orphaned on CRAN relatively
>     >> recently.
>     >> As I have 'robust' among the 'Suggests: ' entries of "my"
>     >> package 'robustbase' I now get a  NOTE   about suggesting an
>     >> orphaned package.
>     >> I've been formally a co-author of that package (togeth
>     >>
>     >> I personally would think it to be a loss for the "robustnik
>     >> community" if this package would not remain easily available
>     >> (notably on Windows, also the Mac where most people cannot
>     >> install package from the source but are used to install the
>     >> binary built package from CRAN).
>     >>
>     >> Are some you willing and capable to become the maintainer of
>     >> 'robust' (with the perspective to do this for a couple of years)?
>     >>
>     >> Best,
>     >> Martin
>

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