On 19/03/2015 19:26, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 19/03/2015 2:55 PM, peter dalgaard wrote:
> On 19 Mar 2015, at 19:45 , Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtene...@fredhutch.org>
> wrote:
> [...]
>
>>
>> In github? ;-)
>>
>
> Well, that's the thing. If github/cran is a read-only mirror, then
should I
> delete these versions from there, too? :) On CRAN not just the files
are
> missing, but these versions are also missing from the RDS database.
So they
> won't be coming back I assume?
>
Perhaps you should stop guessing and start asking the CRAN
maintainers? Hint: c...@r-project.org
I did: the problem was that the source had a license violation, so CRAN
can't keep it online. (It had some GPL-3 code, but was released under
GPL-2.)
Two places to look for such information on CRAN:
- Where a fair amount of information needs to be given (like exactly
which versions have been removed), there may be a README in the Archive
directory. E.g.
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/sdcTable/README , and I
have added one for Rglpk.
- There is a DCF file http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.in
which acts as the database which R CMD check --as-cran consults. That
contains concise records of archival and removal. Its coverage is
pretty good for the last three years.
--
Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK
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