Somewhat *urgent*: fUtilities "gone" -- people crying ...

[Martin Maechler]

A belated happy new year!

Hi guys, we have a problem:  People on R-help are complaining
because fUtilities has disappeared from CRAN
(because we have not fixed its problems after being asked to do so).

I think I remember we wanted to deprecated fUtilities,
i.e. ask useRs to use a replacement, but which one?

Diethelm,
can you remind me/us of the plans?

Martin


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From: David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
To: Dominic Comtois <dominic.comtois at gmail.com>
CC: <r-help at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] fUtilities removed
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:52:57 -0500


On Jan 13, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Dominic Comtois wrote:

> When setting up my new machine, I had the surprise to see that  
> "Package
> 'fUtilities' was removed from the CRAN repository."
>

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/rmetrics-core/2012-January/000554.html
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/rmetrics-core/2011-November/000549.html

>
>
> This is problematic for my work. I use many of its functions, and it  
> will
> complicate things a lot if other programmers want to use my previous  
> code in
> the future. Plus, nowhere can I find the justification for its  
> removal.

You need to send your questions to the maintainers. They apparently  
did not respond to the requests to fix the errors.

>
> Thanks for any info on this

You should perhaps subscribe to the list that is established for  
discussion on this and related packages.

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

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