Inspired by this exchange, I just noticed that one of my packages, RBrownie was also pulled from CRAN. Nice to know.<div><br>Brian</div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________<br>Brian O'Meara<br>Assistant Professor<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Jombart, Thibaut <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:t.jombart@imperial.ac.uk">t.jombart@imperial.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Dear all,<br>
<br>
sorry for not replying sooner, I am just reading these posts now - need to pay more attention to this ML.<br>
<br>
The whole situation is very odd. I received only one single automatic notification about adephylo not compiling on windows with R beta, to which I replied the next day. Other than that, I never received any other message about the package - not even in my spambox, assuming a spam filter would dare to tag Brian Ripley's emails as 'spam'. Anyway, I only discovered this morning is that adephylo's been archived, thanks to Ben.<br>
<br>
I have submitted a new version this afternoon and adephylo is back on CRAN.<br>
<br>
The scary thing is, when I enquired today to BR about what happened, he told me that a package maintainer is not contacted when the package is archived/removed. His reply was one has to check the checks. I'll add that to my checklist.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
<br>
Thibaut.<br>
<br>
________________________________________<br>
From: <a href="mailto:phylobase-devl-bounces@r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at">phylobase-devl-bounces@r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at</a> [<a href="mailto:phylobase-devl-bounces@r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at">phylobase-devl-bounces@r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at</a>] on behalf of Ben Bolker [<a href="mailto:bbolker@gmail.com">bbolker@gmail.com</a>]<br>
Sent: 05 November 2011 00:35<br>
To: <a href="mailto:phylobase-devl@r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at">phylobase-devl@r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at</a><br>
Subject: [Phylobase-devl] Fwd: Re: CRAN packages phylobase and adephylo<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
Hey guys,<br>
<br>
Any opinions about this?<br>
<br>
adephylo is not absolutely necessary to phylobase, but it bothers me<br>
to spend effort removing it when we might be able to fix it instead.<br>
Perhaps if Thibaut responds (the fix is fairly trivial) and we then<br>
grovel to the R Gods/BDR ...<br>
<br>
It may be necessary for political reasons to make these changes and<br>
then revert them if/when we get adephylo fixed.<br>
<br>
We have another issue -- the Solaris build (sigh) is failing, with the<br>
following error:<br>
<br>
"./ncl/nxsstring.h", line 467: Error: The function "sprintf" must have<br>
a prototype.<br>
<br>
Fixing this (by remote control) could be pretty challenging -- R-forge<br>
doesn't have a Solaris build, so it could involve more grovelling to BDR<br>
for advice (another reason to temporarily do the adephylo fix, unless we<br>
can get our act together quickly).<br>
<br>
cheers<br>
Ben<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
-------- Original Message --------<br>
Subject: Re: CRAN packages phylobase and adephylo<br>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 16:50:41 +0000 (GMT)<br>
From: Prof Brian Ripley <<a href="mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk">ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk</a>><br>
To: Ben Bolker <<a href="mailto:bbolker@gmail.com">bbolker@gmail.com</a>><br>
CC: <a href="mailto:CRAN@r-project.org">CRAN@r-project.org</a><br>
<br>
On Fri, 4 Nov 2011, Ben Bolker wrote:<br>
<br>
> On 11-11-04 04:31 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:<br>
>> Package adephylo has been archived: it was failing on R 2.14.0 and we<br>
>> have had no response to several messages to the maintainer.<br>
>><br>
>> Package phylobase suggests adephylo, but still passes its checks without<br>
>> it (and grepping the code suggests that it does not actually use it).<br>
>> Nevertheless, the documentation needs updating, so can we please have a<br>
>> revised version of phylobase.<br>
>><br>
>> Brian Ripley<br>
>><br>
><br>
> I think I see the problem with adephylo -- I'm going to try to nag the<br>
> maintainer (who I know personally) a bit more and see if we can get this<br>
> resolved from that end.<br>
<br>
It's far too late: adephylo has been archived. His complete failure<br>
to respond to messages means we may be reluctant to re-admit it.<br>
<br>
In any case, phylobase needs an update now.<br>
<br>
><br>
> thanks<br>
> Ben Bolker<br>
><br>
<br>
--<br>
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