[Phylobase-devl] Fwd: Re: CRAN packages phylobase and adephylo

[Hilmar Lapp]

If Thibaut et al aren't able to maintain the package at this time,  
perhaps we or some of us can help out if the fixes required as as  
simple as they appear here? I've applied to join the project on R- 
forge, will update you if I get a response.

https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/adephylo/

	-hilmar

On Nov 4, 2011, at 8:35 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:

>
>  Hey guys,
>
>  Any opinions about this?
>
>  adephylo is not absolutely necessary to phylobase, but it bothers me
> to spend effort removing it when we might be able to fix it instead.
> Perhaps if Thibaut responds (the fix is fairly trivial) and we then
> grovel to the R Gods/BDR ...
>
>  It may be necessary for political reasons to make these changes and
> then revert them if/when we get adephylo fixed.
>
>  We have another issue -- the Solaris build (sigh) is failing, with  
> the
> following error:
>
> "./ncl/nxsstring.h", line 467: Error: The function "sprintf" must have
> a prototype.
>
>  Fixing this (by remote control) could be pretty challenging -- R- 
> forge
> doesn't have a Solaris build, so it could involve more grovelling to  
> BDR
> for advice (another reason to temporarily do the adephylo fix,  
> unless we
> can get our act together quickly).
>
>  cheers
>    Ben
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: CRAN packages phylobase and adephylo
> Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 16:50:41 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> To: Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com>
> CC: CRAN at r-project.org
>
> On Fri, 4 Nov 2011, Ben Bolker wrote:
>
>> On 11-11-04 04:31 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>> Package adephylo has been archived: it was failing on R 2.14.0 and  
>>> we
>>> have had no response to several messages to the maintainer.
>>>
>>> Package phylobase suggests adephylo, but still passes its checks  
>>> without
>>> it (and grepping the code suggests that it does not actually use  
>>> it).
>>> Nevertheless, the documentation needs updating, so can we please  
>>> have a
>>> revised version of phylobase.
>>>
>>> Brian Ripley
>>>
>>
>> I think I see the problem with adephylo -- I'm going to try to nag  
>> the
>> maintainer (who I know personally) a bit more and see if we can get  
>> this
>> resolved from that end.
>
> It's far too late: adephylo has been archived.  His complete failure
> to respond to messages means we may be reluctant to re-admit it.
>
> In any case, phylobase needs an update now.
>
>>
>> thanks
>>   Ben Bolker
>>
>
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